Part of the In-Crowd!

Today I found out, yet again, how cool Rachel Morrill really is. Oh, and many, many thousands of my fellow alumni. You see, BYU is the second most popular school in the nation!

What, exactly, does that mean? This particular article ranked colleges based on "yield." For some reason, "yield" means the percentage of accepted applicants that end up attending that school in the fall. So a school with a high yield means that most of the people that were accepted there decided to go there. A low yield shows that people chose another school (or I suppose not to go to school at all). BYU has the second highest yield in the nation! 77% of accepted applicants in the 2007 entering class decided on going to BYU! The only one higher is Harvard, with 79%. MIT...Yale...Princeton...all lower on the list!

Of course, it says BYU has a 74% acceptance rate, while those other schools have way, way, way lower (9% for Harvard). I'm not really sure what that means for popularity. Maybe just that pretty much exclusively LDS people apply, and most of them pretty much know if their grades are BYU quality or not.

So, I am cool.

U of U only has a 47% yield. I guess half the people repented after applying.