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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the same but a story.

My oldest applied to 4 colleges and had gotten acceptances back from 3, but the one I had thought would be no issue at all had said nothing.  But - he really liked that school.  So - I did call to get their timing.  Person who answered the phone in the admissions office was not a student - had an older women’s voice.  She kindly took the information on my kid and put me on hold.  A couple minutes later she gets back on and says, “he’s in.  I’m sorry.  I don’t know what happened, but with those numbers he’s in.”  Let me fax that to you, and she did a few minutes later.   So we always say that he got admitted by the admin. dept. secretary.  [/quote]

The weird denials relate to yield. Here's the thing. If you apply to a meh school and grades and scores significantly above the kids to whom they usually give merit scholarships, the meh school knows they're just a safety. So then they see if you've really shown any interest in the school. If you haven't, then if they admit you they're hurting their yield because you'll surely laugh and say "Pfft. I'm going to Penn/Duke/Georgetown/Cornell/fill-in-the-blank".

Your phone call told the school that, insanely enough, your kid was actually interested in attending there. I'm sure when the secretary talked to the Admissions Director he said "This kid wants to come to OUR POS school? All right, tell them yes--I'll figure out how to record that in the USNWR data depending on what the kid does".[/quote]

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