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Chapter 3 Early Decision and the Dating Game
When it comes to love, you want to find the one person you care for so dearly, and connect with so completely, that you're ready to commit your entire life to that person. You want to be honorable, faithful, and sincere. With colleges, you need to be that kind of lover—just a lot more fickle.
US universities have invented a fairly complicated system of early admissions in order to try and unpack whether or not you actually like them. One of Crimson's partners is US News & World Report,ssss1 the leading global ranking organization for US universities. An important criteria to the all-important rankings for US universities is the “yield rate,” which is the percentage of students who accept an offer from that university. Harvard, for example, has a yield rate that hovers about 81%. This means that for every 100 offers Harvard gives to students around the world, 81 offers are actually accepted. This is a crucial statistic to study alongside acceptance rates when researching a university because it shows how desirable the school actually is to the competitive kids who have been able to get in. (See ssss1 for more explanation!)