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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another thing, for the top schools to do something like a medical residency matching algorithm.  You rank schools in advance, and if you ranked Harvard over Princeton and both admit you, you only get an offer from Harvard.   Princeton is automatically rejected.   [/quote]

And who does that help?  Does that magically make more seats at Princeton?  Do you think the subset of "kids accepted at both H&P" is statistically significant enough to have any effect?

And when you get tot he merit aid schools you are now doing real damage.  But you don't care about those, do you?[/quote]

I do.  In my plan, in order to participate in the matching, the school has to commit to meet full need and provide no merit aid, which what the top schools pretty much are.   We only need to standardize the “full need” and let the applicants  know before they go in.   BTW, this is how Ivies once operated, but then got hit with antitrust lawsuit.   So, they are not discussing financial aid together anymore, but they don’t do merit either.

The subset of kids accepted to H&P is probably small, but the subset of kids admitted to more than one school with single digits admission rates is huge.  If you remove the impact of ED, it will be even bigger.   Most of those schools want the same people.

How does that help?  Princeton will be told right away to admit one more person because a student was taken by Harvard.  They wouldn’t have to guess on how many of their 2000 offers they are competing with peers.  The merit aid schools will be dipping in their pool, not Harvard and Yale.  BTW, in UK you can apply to either Oxford or Cambridge, not both.[/quote]

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