Yield rate = enrolled students/admitted student (first year students
Yield 往往被用来作为衡量美国大学威望 (prestigious),竞争力(competitive)和排名 (ranks).
这里是部分大学 class of 2010 (2006年秋入学) yield and US News 2006 University ranks
Univ., Yield, US News Ranking
Harvard: 80% , 1
Yale: 70%, 2
Priceton: 69%, 1
Upenn: 68%, 4
Stanford: 67%, 5
MIT: 66%, 7
Columbia: 58%, 9
Brown: 53%, 15
Dartmouth: 49%, 9
.Cornell: 46%, 13
.Michigan: 44%, 25
.Duke: 41%, 5
.Caltech 38%, 7
.Rice: 35%, 17
.JHU: 34%, 13
.Emory: 28%, 20
LACs
1. Williams : 43%, 1
2. Swarthmore: 41%, 2
Top yield colleges(>60%) are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, U.Penn, Sanford, MIT.与US News ranking 相匹配.
但似乎杜克大学(Duke)及加州理工学院 (Caltech)的 yield not match it's ranking
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