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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well said 9:58.  A relevant conversation is what leads an admitted applicant to choose one school over another.  Managing the yield.[/quote]

Of course.

But one way to influence the Yield rate is to try and make sure that the students that are accepted are leaning in your direction. As opposed to a strategy in which you admit the best possible candidates and let them then select. No matter how well qualified, a candidate whose father, uncles and brothers have all gone to Gonzaga is probably not going to be accepted at GP because the GP Admissions office is pretty much convinced he isn't coming to GP.

This works at a college level too. If an Admissons officer is told that his or her school is the candidate's #1 choice and that if they are admitted they are certain to attend, that persons chances of being admitted frequently go way up. I have seen this work many times in negotiations between the college placement offices and the college Admissions department.

There's a tremendous amount of misunderstanding of the Admissions process on this board. In some of these people's minds it's all about test scores and grades and feeder schools. While these are not unimportant and can be disqualifiers, there are a lot of non-quantitative factors that are considered. The Admissions department has got a lot of clients on their own campuses they have to satisfy from the faculty to the coaches to the Development office to the director of the play.

I just know from reading some of these posts that some of these people must be seen as being overbearing, over-involved, etc. And the Admissions person is thinking to himself or herself, "Do we really need this grief".

At GP a few years ago, a student, an older brother of an applicant, was chronically late and often absent. The mother had excuse after excuse. The younger brother was not admitted even though on just about every other point of consideration he was a shoo in. She had literally worn out her welcome.

The high schools are anxious to hear about potential problems with the parents from the middle schools. They are looking for a nod or a wink.

That's in part why Mater Dei is a dual edged sword for people trying to get their boys into GP. Lots of nodding and winking going on there.[/quote]

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