"As one Stanford colleague put it, Harvard is better for undergraduates, Stanford for faculty," MacFarquhar writes.
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Both Yale and Stanford saw the rate jump about 10 percent between 1994 and 1995, when they adopted Early Decision policies.
Marlyn McGrath-Lewis '70-'73 says that Harvard's yield against Stanford, MIT and Caltech is about consistent with the overall yield of 80 percent.
She adds that the admitted student overlap with Stanford is higher than that with the other two, specialized schools.
"There may be interesting developments on the way there, but so far we don't have data to support them," she writes in an e-mail message.
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