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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan played this wrong.  They started out by only taking maybe two 3.95/ 1600 type kids EA from my son's private and those kids turned them down. Then the 1550/3.8s who would have loved Michigan chose other top25s RD and have declined their waitlist offers. So now they're taking 3.5-3.6 kids who are middle of the grade or below. [/quote]

After being deferred with a 4.0/1570 my son just pulled his application to Michigan because he's like yeah, no thanks.  A lot of his friends said no thanks to being on the waitlist too. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s games. Yields are getting so unpredictable because kids are applying to 20+ schools (ridiculous) so the predictions are getting harder.  And the flip side is there were years many schools over-enrolled, had kids in hotels, not enough housing because more than they expected said “yes”. I think from a school view it’s easier to fill more seats after than be over enrolled [/quote]

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