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...story, "College Sees No Change in Admissions Yield," relied on preliminary data provided by Harvard's Office of Admissions, the sole source of information regarding applicants and matriculations. Since the publication of that story, the office has updated its numbers and, to both its surprise and that of The Crimson, the yield percentage has changed. The article below reflects the newest available information...
...With the yield for the Class of 2012 projected at 76 percent—lower than the initially reported 78 percent—Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the admissions office will be taking more than the originally reported 150 to 175 students off the waitlist this year...
Still, he said that he expects to have lost more students in the cross-admit battle between Yale and Harvard this year, due to Yale's decision to keep its early action program. Yale's yield also remained unchanged, at 69 percent...
...also the College's most competitive year yet, with an acceptance rate of only 7.1 percent of a record 27,462 applicants. To avoid overcrowding the freshman class and without the results of previous years to give an idea of what yield would be like in the wake of these changes, 110 fewer students were admitted...
While Harvard and Princeton dropped early admissions this year, Yale and Stanford maintained their early programs. As a result, Fitzsimmons initially calculated that dropping early admissions would ding Harvard's yield by as much as seven points, an effect that ultimately did not take place. Last year's yield came in at 79.2 percent...