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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take it! Your child has been admitted to this program to hide their stats so if not in this program, not admitted at all. Because of this smoke and mirrors approach in admissions, more of the colleges are offering it and strengthening their programs. [/quote]

More colleges are doing this, but it's not to hide anything. It's just practical to have people waiting to take the place of those they know will leave after the first semester for whatever reason, and they're pretty good at predicting how many students that will be each year. They lose loads of money otherwise.[/quote]

You are right and wrong. They intentionally choose some applicants to place in the spring start programs. However, it also does help them balance their open beds in dorms during spring semester.[/quote]

It is 100% so they don't have to include the students' stats in their reported numbers for the incoming first years. I would guess most of them are full-pay as well. But so what? If the kids loves that school, do it. [/quote]
You’re so wrong but that doesn’t keep you from piping up to show your ignorance. You must be salty that your kid needs financial aid and an acceptance to go to their top choice. [/quote]

Actually you are wrong. This spring access practice did start so they schools didn’t have to report low stat kids. No matter the insults you hurl -that is common knowledge [/quote]

So say there's a university that wants 5000 students in its freshman class. And say they admit 4800 with an average SAT of 1300 in the fall and defer 200 with an average SAT of 1100 to the spring. Those 200 students would bring the average SAT down to 1292 if they were included in the Common Data Set info. So the cost to the college is 8 points if they admit them in the fall. But the cost of not admitting them in the fall is conservatively $5000 for a $50K/year school, so they're losing $1 million in revenue to gain 8 points on their SAT average, which is only 5% of the USNWR calculation.

Do you really believe this is something colleges are doing? It makes no sense.

Another point to consider is this: If colleges are starting students in the spring in order to avoid having them counted in the data, why do they still do it at schools where test scores are optional? This was pretty much every school in the country last year, and will continue to be true for many schools for the foreseeable future. Why would they need to hide scores of those who don't need to (and thus probably don't) report them anyway?[/quote]
That pp is wrong and stupidly insisting that just ONE reason exists why schools fill their dorm rooms in the spring - with very committed and full pay students! such a mystery!

People who cannot afford the spring admit option love to malign it.   [/quote]

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