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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d encourage my kid to apply to their dream school, and apply RD to the pipeline school since lresumably there is still some advantage there if HYPS does not work out. [/quote]

College counselor was candid in saying this college cares a great deal about yield and all bets are off if applying RD.[/quote]

That’s Chicago for sure, they’re known to care the most about yield and take the overwhelming majority of its class from ED rounds. EA and RD are essentially a joke for them[/quote]

Can you blame them? Otherwise they’d have to compete with HYPSM, Caltech, Duke, UPenn, etc. for a lot of students. Their strategy saves them a lot of hassle.[/quote]

Yes I can blame them, it’s a scummy strategy that hurts themselves more than anyone else. They’re supposed to compete for the best students, even if it means losing a lot of students. I mean look at Caltech, Duke, and Columbia. All top tier schools with slightly lower yield rates because they’ll admit the actual top students who are applying, even if they know several of them won’t enroll because they’ll have an offer from HPSM. So they end up losing a lot of students to HPSM in particular, but they don’t care because it’s better to have 2 out of those 10 tippy-top students (gold medalists, national champions, math prodigies, etc.) actually choose to enroll at your school than to not give them the chance to make a decision at all. Because of this, schools like Caltech, Duke, and Columbia have superstars in their student body who will set the tone for their class because they weren’t afraid to accept them and see them walk elsewhere.[/quote]

Duke buys top students with generous merit scholarships in order to compete with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, & Stanford.[/quote]

All of the top schools offer something to compete with HPSM. There was another post about this earlier but Yale has a STEM scholarship, Duke offers 70-100 scholarships per year (many of which are for low income kids, so the cost would have been the same with just financial aid), Columbia offers 100+ scholarships per year, UPenn offers 300+ scholarships and dual degree programs per year, and Cornell offers 350+ scholarships per year. Every school outside HPSM offers something essentially, and Duke doesn’t offer even close to the most. I think notably Caltech doesn’t offer anything though, which ends up really hurting them particularly against MIT.[/quote]

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