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I'm noticing that a lot of people think the yield is 70.3 percent. But most admissions offices, Yale included, calculate yield only after discounting the number of students who plan to postpone matriculation. As the article stated, 35 students as of the time of publication have planned to postpone matriculation. Those students are taken out of both the numerator (as they are not counted in Yale's matriculants to the class of 2018) or the denominator (as they will, ultimately, be admitted to the class of 2019). Thus the denominator isn't 1,935 but rather 1,899 (one other student was taken out for another undisclosed reason) and so the yield stands at 1,361/1899 or 71.7% as reported above.
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anonymous niebuhr ? 10 months ago
If they actually counted as admits all those who WERE admitted, whether or not they enrolled, there were 1,970 admits. I believe Yale and Princeton are the only two schools - and not "most admissions offices" as you assert -which play this game of "discounting" deferees in order to boost the apparent yield rate. Thus the REAL pre-waitlist and summer melt yield was 69%. At least that's the way MOST colleges other than Yale would figure it.

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• As a mathematician, this makes sense! -Yangtze430030- ♂ (73 bytes) () 04/08/2015 postreply 13:04:13