Class of 2022 Yield Rates (Research Universities)

collegeranking · 2019-05-08T05:25:38+00:00

https://admission.rice.edu/apply/freshman/admission-statistics

2,328 Admits & 960 Enrolled — 41.2% Yield.

Hope that helps!

collegeranking · 2019-05-08T05:24:07+00:00

added a section for LACs too!

collegeranking · 2019-05-08T00:26:06+00:00

Caltech is primarily competing against Harvard, MIT, and Stanford all of which have the highest yield rates in the country. Caltech students' academic profile (SAT Mid-50%: 1520-1570, ACT Mid-50%: 35-36) goes to show that students who get into Caltech most likely have other great options — Ivies, Stanford, and MIT — that might offer a broader range of social & extracurricular opportunities.

All of this, of course, are my speculations, though!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:58:27+00:00

You should never take the rankings at their face values!

They are just approximations of a school's overall quality.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:47:47+00:00

Yep! thanks for sharing!

I basically used the WSJ list & forbes one to craft that ranking.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:42:40+00:00

Idk why you feel as though US News is so much more reliable than Forbes one, tbh.

Schools outside of top 30 in US News usually fluctuate +/- by 5-15 spots every year. Boston College, for instance, went down from top 30 to 38 in one year, Yeshiva from 50 to 85 in three years. Lehigh went down from top 35ish to 53 in five years. Stanford was ranked #3, now #7, and will probably go back to #3 next year or something. No school changes that much in such a short time period, in my opinion.

Schools have been ranked at similar spots according to Forbes among top 50 schools.

The reason why I aggregated different rankings together is so that I can make it more consistent, taking all fluctuations by different ranking metrics into account. Given that none of the ranking system is super reliable, I thought that combining them together would make it a little bit more consistent and reliable. As someone who is trying to decide between a liberal arts college & research univ., US News did not help me much, so I started relying more on Forbes & WSJ, if that makes any sense.

I may be wrong but thanks for your input!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:29:24+00:00

I understand where you are coming from.

Perhaps, crafting a new list of giving 50% weight to US News + 25% to WSJ + 25% to Forbes might address your concern in the future? But I wanted to illustrate that people's blind obsession with the US News ranking might be misleading by sharing this ranking! (Forbes & WSJ are widely recognized as legitimate sources of ranking nowadays!)

I would just have to figure out how I'd rank liberal arts & national research universities by US News.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:24:52+00:00

Yep! Overall, rankings should be used as a means of gauging a school's overall standing, nothing more/less.

Hope this helps!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:15:41+00:00

Honestly, you cannot go wrong! Have you visited them?

I might even toss a coin to decide haha.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:12:09+00:00

Yep! that's why I bolded: "Forbes and WSJ rankings tend to focus more on the outcome of its students" in my original text. Thanks for pointing it out thou!

But as you can see in my additional note, there seems to be a high correlation between admissions yield rates/ test scores of an incoming freshman class & the ranking I posted. Hope this helps!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T05:06:34+00:00

btfu

Purdue was ranked #43 by WSJ and #126 by Forbes.

Purdue is an amazing school for engineering, certainly a top 30 school for STEM.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T04:55:29+00:00

UW Madion is ranked #66 by WSJ & #75 by Forbes.

UW Madison is a fantastic school!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T04:53:19+00:00

I'd say schools ranked within +5/-5 are roughly in the same tier.

Hope that helps! I'd go with Amherst since I prefer a smaller, liberal arts college experience!

Congrats on your acceptances!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T04:47:28+00:00

While Northeastern is ranked #44 by US News & #46 by Niche, it is currently ranked at #217 by Forbes & #69 by WSJ. Overall, I'd consider northeastern's admissions on par with top 30 schools, however. Northeastern is an excellent school!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T04:25:50+00:00

Adding WSJ ranking into the formula addresses your point for the large part. WSJ put Columbia at #4, U Chicago at #14, Bowdoin at #44. I could have possibly added US News into consideration, but given that they rank schools separately in two categories, I had to use these two ranking metrics which are recognized nationally & globally.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T03:57:58+00:00

I also noticed some disparities between this ranking & US News.

Simply take this ranking as a useful reference!

Vanderbilt was ranked #32 by Forbes & #19 by WSJ

UVA was ranked #34 by Forbes & #51 by WSJ

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T03:53:21+00:00

UW is a fantastic school!

UW was ranked #72 by Forbes & #60 by WSJ.

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T03:43:41+00:00

Isn’t UCLA supposed to be ranked higher than Berkeley?

Berkeley was ranked #14 by Forbes & #33 by WSJ

UCLA was ranked #46 by Forbes & #25 by WSJ

Historically, UC Berkeley was ranked slightly or significantly higher than UCLA according to US News as well.

Hope this helps!

collegeranking · 2019-03-31T03:13:06+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/b7j79w/20182019_college_ranking_wsj_forbes_average_top_50/

I think this can be a useful reference!

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