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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every school (other than HYPSM, Duke, Wharton) is admitting the top yielding student over a top student in RD.

Saw this happen with Northwestern, UChicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Cornell - from our private this RD cycle. Examine the admits…if your kid is at a small school they know everything about everyone. The admitted kids had a high chance of yielding.[/quote]

What are other signs of yielding in the RD round, aside from legacy and athletic recruit? Particularly at places you mentioned NU, UChicago, Brown, Dartmouth etc? [/quote]

ED deferral; legacy; interview/ chat engagement long before RD deadline (eg before Nov 1); summer Admissions preview attendee;  multiple visits; sitting in on classes in fall; summer program attendee (Dartmouth + Brown); email to AO with updates in February. I’d imagine they also added these schools to Common App back in August.

I suspect Supp essays obviously played a big role bc the schools were a top choice for the kid so they did a better job (one kid told my DC they referenced an ongoing convo they had with a Vanderbilt professor throughout fall after sitting in on a class on their RD app) - somehow these kids didn’t get many high reach RD admit; maybe 1-2. But it included a top 3 choice.

My 2 cents: ask around at your high school. Everything is high school specific. The tips mentioned above are the ones I gleaned from our high school.[/quote]

Why did our $$$ college counselor not mention this stuff?![/quote]

This is standard. I’d expect any IEC to know this.[/quote]

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