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[quote=Anonymous](DP) Quoted from the Fiske guide--“Most colleges and universities operate within fairly defined “niche markets”. That is, they compete for students against other institutions with whom they share important characteristics, such as academic quality, size, geographic location, and the overall tone and style of campus life.” Students who apply to a particular school also tend to apply to its peer institutions.

The Fiske Guide To College staff asked each school included in the guide to give “the names of the colleges or universities that they consider to be their closest peer institutions and those with which they share the most…applications, and these are listed in the “Overlaps” section at the end of each write-up”.

So yes, the overlap schools listed in the Fiske guide do tend to share applicant pools. Also (for many but not all schools), the self-identified "Peer Institutions" in the IPEDS database tend to share applicant pools. The overlap schools for Bowdoin and Amherst are somewhat different, the applicant pools are somewhat different, and this explains why they differ in certain critical metrics like yield rate when their overall ranking (in e.g. USNWR) is so similar.[/quote]

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