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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of interesting suggestions. The problem with some of the ones that involve ranking is that a) money might influence the decision, and this is not known at the time of application, and b) these are 17/18 year old kids so their ranking is very likely to change between the time they submit apps and when they receive decisions, and/or if they visit schools after they are admitted.[/quote]
A non-binding ranking is way more flexible than ED. [/quote]

If it is non-binding then what good is it? People will use it to game the system rather than express true preference.[/quote]
As the PP just said, kids often don’t have a settled true preference because (1) they’re only 17-18 and (2) the colleges haven’t informed them of the true price yet.

And the good of the ranking is that it’s data for the school about what it will take to yield you. More competitive schools can reject, or decline to give merit to, students who don’t rank them in the top four. But if an unranked school sweeps in with a full ride, and thus suddenly becomes the most-preferred option, the applicant is free to take it.

It’s similar to what private schools do when they cap applications. In that case, the colleges all know that, for students from that high school, they’re in the student’s top 10-12 schools. And the private schools impose these caps because they find that they help their college results. [/quote]

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