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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is exactly what I would do, for starters.  Pick your five schools, and get on with it.  This applying to 20 schools ridiculous.  [/quote]

Who benefits from this?  How would this improve anything? [/quote]

Schools don’t need to manage yield and will be making their decisions solely on whether they want this student.   If they know they are one of five, they know you are serious.[/quote]

Exactly.  They know immediately that you didn’t just throw them in at the last minute, to the list of 20 other random schools you’re applying to.  It would make a huge difference.  Plus, admissions offices wouldn’t be inundated with thousands of meaningless applications. [/quote]

Colleges don't care if you added them at the last minute if they want you.

Admissions offices are not "inundated".  They want as many students to choose from as they can and they can handle it.  If they didn't they would fill the entire class ED/SCEA.  You are applying a solution to a thing that is not a problem, and certainly not your problem.

This would not make anything better and would make a whole lot worse for both students and the colleges.  Do you think you thought of this and no one in admissions has?  If this was a good idea it would be implemented already.  It is a bad idea.[/quote]

No, it would’t be implemented in US because of antitrust considerations.  Our laws don’t allow colleges to talk to each other and make any joint decisions limiting competition.   Even the idea that a college can’t go after an applicant who already accepted somewhere else got shut down a couple of years ago.

The US college admission game is a classic prisoner’s dilemma - cooperation would be beneficial for all, but the benefits to a single entity that doesn’t cooperate are huge, so everyone refuses to cooperate and we are all worse off.[/quote]

The only people that struggle are those trying to get into highly competitive schools - 50-100 or so out of 3,000 colleges.  There’s still the same number of seats and the same number of kids will get admitted. Changing this doesn’t make it easier for the kids applying to those schools, it makes it harder, as essentially it is a “5 school ED”.

If you are correct that the only reason this is not done is because of antitrust laws (a position unsupported by evidence) then I will point out that anti-trust laws exist for a reason, and that reason is to protect the populace. So that’s really not a good argument for why it would somehow be “better” for applicants.

Instead of using general terms like “better” and “easier”, why don’t you mention a specific problem that this addresses and how it makes it “better”? [/quote]

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