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Which university is the most popular one?
Of course, Harvard University tops the list. You may believe Stanford to be the second, but you are wrong. You will be surprised that Brigham Young University-Provo ranked second.

Recently U.S. News and World Report ranked colleges by the percentage of students accepted who actually wind up attending. In college terms, it is known as the “yield.” 79 percent of the students selected by Harvard enroll at the Massachusetts school. That is why Harvard ranked the first. Brigham Young University-Provo has 77% yield, ranked the second for the yield even though the school only ranked 113th by traditional method. University of Nebraska-Lincoln is third, with a yield of 71 percent even though it is ranked 89th by traditional method. Stanford University only comes in fourth, with a yield of 70 percent, of course Stanford ranked 4th by traditional method. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University tied for fifth, each with a yield of 69 percent.

U.S. News_Rank Acceptance_Rate Yield
Harvard University (MA) 1 9% 79%
Brigham Young University–Provo (UT) 113 74% 77%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln 89 62% 71%
Stanford University (CA) 4 10% 70%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 12% 69%
Yale University (CT) 3 10% 69%
Princeton University (NJ) 2 10% 68%
University of Pennsylvania 6 16% 66%
Yeshiva University (NY) 50 69% 65%
University of Florida 49 42% 63%
Columbia University (NY) 8 11% 59%
Brown University (RI) 16 14% 56%
Texas A&M University–College Station 64 76% 56%
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 30 35% 56%
University of Notre Dame (IN) 18 24% 56%
Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge 130 73% 55%
University of Texas–Austin 47 51% 54%
Dartmouth College (NH) 11 15% 52%
University of Virginia 23 35% 52%
University of Georgia 58 54% 51%
Kansas State University 130 95% 50%
University of Alabama 83 64% 50%
University of Oklahoma 108 89% 50%
North Carolina State University–Raleigh 83 60% 49%
Ohio State University–Columbus 56 59% 49%
University of Missouri–Columbia 96 86% 48%
University of Tennessee 108 71% 48%
Cornell University (NY) 14 21% 47%
Georgetown University (DC) 23 21% 47%
University of Kentucky 116 77% 47%

So why Brigham Young University has high yield? BYU accepted 74% of the 10,010 people who applied for admission in the summer term and fall semester of 2007. The majority of students at Brigham Young University have traveled the world to preach the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the founders of Brigham Young University. It is the oldest existing institution within the LDS Church Educational System, is America’s largest religious university, and has the second-largest private university enrollment in the United States. Approximately 98% of the 34,000 students at BYU are LDS; two-thirds of its American students come from outside the state of Utah. The university’s primary focus is on undergraduate education. About 70% of student tuition is funded by LDS Church tithing funds, making tuition relatively less expensive than at similar private universities. It is the money! This explains the yield score.

For BYU, the average ACT score and GPA for these admitted students was 27.9 and 3.78, respectively. Students from every state in the U.S. and from many foreign countries attend BYU. In the 2005-6 academic year, there were 2,396 foreign students, or 8% of enrollment. Slightly more than 98% of these students are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2006, 12.6% of the student body represented ethnic minorities, mostly Asian/Pacific islanders and Hispanics.

BYU received other reviews. Princeton Review has ranked BYU the best value for college in 2007, and its library is consistently ranked in the nation’s top ten–#1 in 2004 and #4 in 2007. BYU is also ranked #19 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” lineup, and #12 in lowest student-incurred debt. Due in part to the school’s emphasis on undergraduate research, BYU is ranked #8 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, #1 nationally for students who go on to dental school, #6 nationally for students who go on to law school, and #10 nationally for students who go on to medical school. BYU is designated as a Carnegie research university with high research activity, one of the highest classifications by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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