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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's idiotic though. Ivies are rejecting students who did everything right in high school, come with $95K in cash hand, and come from high schools that routinely produce the eventual valedictorians AT THE IVY.  So the colleges know these kids are extraordinarily well-prepared, will rock the studies, will become the Ivy grads who go on to be successful in noteworthy ways... BUT no.  They reject them.

All in favor of candidates that have yet to even apply.  I get it if they are rejecting them for better (more diverse, whatever) candidates that they have in-hand. But rejecting these kids and then saying "please, please, please apply--we will make it free and we will extend our deadlines" just makes zero sense.

It's like enrollment management has gone off the deep end of crazy. 
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That is not how it works though. Yale defers a decent percentage of applicants and combined with admits, this means the rejected students were not in the top 30% or so of the very competitive SCEA pool.

Every super selective school states that they look past just stats. Also full pay does not move the needle at the most competitive schools, at least not without sizable donations.

“Students who did everything right” don’t
necessarily make the most compelling applicants. [/quote]

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