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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- 1530 SAT
- 3.97 UW GPA
- Around 10 APs
- Decent ECs with some leadership
- Applied to College of Business
- A sibling is a freshman there, and they even sent us a letter that the kid will be considered as a legacy.
(We thought it's a good sign)

Deferred and shocked

I think they have some sort of sophisticated formula and algorithm.[/quote]

Could there be some of "notoriety" to staggering your acceptance rate per round? i.e. ED, ED2, EA, RD[/quote]

What do you mean by "notoriety" in this context?  I think some schools are being labeled as "yield protectors"--i.e. accused of rejecting "overqualified" applicants because they want to keep their yield statistic low to climb the rankings.  However, that statistic is no long part of the USNews ranking...I think the real issue is that for some schools (think the top 10-20), yield is quite high and quite predictable.  For others in the 20-50 range, it is increasingly unpredictable, which can lead to massive over-enrollment, which happened to Northeastern last year.  I'm guessing that "yield protection" is now "yield management"...they are just trying really hard to predict who will actually matriculate so as to keep their enrollment in line with expectations.[/quote]

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