Revised financial aid may prove sheer seduction for top athletes
These days Yale and Harvard split cross admits pretty evenly (it might by 55/45 in Harvard's favor). Don't know if it's the same with athletes, though...
"One of the key factors in Yale's lower yield is its high applicant and admit overlap with Harvard, a school that enjoys the nation's highest yield rate. In general, Yale loses about three out of four common admits to Harvard, but comes out even against Princeton and Stanford, Shaw said." (Yale Herald)
Last year, Harvard had 400 admits who declined, and Yale had 589. As I understand it, the difference is more than accounted for by common admits who picked Harvard over Yale.
NY Times has the split at 65 Harvard 35 Yale. Yale's much closer to Harvard than any other school, but that is a considerable gap.
I wonder what the satisfaction gap is after graduation...
The only reason Harvard stays competitive, according to "Harvard football recruiter)Westerfield, is that it’s Harvard. Three out of four students who get into Harvard and either Yale or Princeton choose Harvard, and it’s no different with high-scoring athletes. “Typically, if I want a kid, I get him,” Westerfield says. “I didn’t lose any kids last year."