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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is normal at a top prep school. They have to control this so that everyone has a reasonable shot at top colleges, rather than one person getting that school's "spot" at all of them, and the rest of the deserving kids getting left behind. [/quote]

Don't colleges track yield? If they only offer one spot and it isn't taken then perhaps the next year they should offer 2?  Conversely if the school is limiting kids the yield data will show that if they offer, then the kid will take the spot so the college should offer fewer spots than they did prior to the school's tactics.[/quote]

Uh yield management works the opposite way.  Universities want to only make offers to kids who will accept if they can.  So if your school sends 20 applicants and 10 get in, but only 2 accept, the next year they may only give 2, whereas if your school only presents 2 and says these are your kids from our school and they both are qualified and the school gives them offers and they both accept, the next year, when the school more kids for that school,  they are more likely to offer to all that the school sends and will trust the school that they are qualified. [/quote]

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