Some schools are definitely guilty of encouraging # of applicants (WU-STL), but Yale?

Princeton SCEA applicant class jumped 27%.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

+1. It is a scam

You picked the wrong example to make this point. Do you actually think that Yale believes that its brand is any stronger because acceptance rates drop from 7% to 6%? It actually makes their job more difficult in many ways.

Well, yes. If this makes Yale rank ahead of Harvard and Princeton in this year's USNWR college rankings issue, then mission accomplished for Yale.

I can assure you that their invitation to apply sent to my DC with a 3.3 GPA was not sincere in terms of their actual desire to accept him to the Yale class of 2020.

And then there's the money angle. having a million people apply and pay a fifty dollar application fee is no small potatoes.

We also found out when they lost our son's application to Emory that with these huge pools, the actual handling of the applications is farmed out to sub-contractors who scan things in and make the admissions folders -- usually in a warehouse somewhere using minimum wage employees hired through a temp service. In our case, one of these employees had mistyped our child's name in and his folder was lost as a result. I hate the idea that all kinds of sensitive information -- like a letter from a counselor about the death in your child's family and how it affected his schoolwork; or an essay about being a gay child growing up in the midwest -- is being handled by a bunch of random people with no training who probably aren't committed to safeguarding this information.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

+1. It is a scam

You picked the wrong example to make this point. Do you actually think that Yale believes that its brand is any stronger because acceptance rates drop from 7% to 6%? It actually makes their job more difficult in many ways.

Don't be silly. Acceptance rates are heavily weighted in college rankings. And btw, the acceptance rate isn't 5-6%. It is more like 20-50% for some demographics and 0% for the rest.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

+1. It is a scam

You picked the wrong example to make this point. Do you actually think that Yale believes that its brand is any stronger because acceptance rates drop from 7% to 6%? It actually makes their job more difficult in many ways.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

+1. It is a scam

To support this, you would need actual evidence that the composition of the pool declined on average from year to year. This just isn't the case.

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Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

You mean enticing students who never would be admitted in the first place to apply so they can flaunt their low acceptance rate.

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

+1. It is a scam

Does anyone else have "Kemp Mill Records breaks its own record!" in his/her head now?

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Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

You mean enticing students who never would be admitted in the first place to apply so they can flaunt their low acceptance rate.

Right right, wasn't clear there about the "chance". Sadly this is just how the game works. Some Ivies are more egregious about this than others.

Anonymous wrote:It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

You mean enticing students who never would be admitted in the first place to apply so they can flaunt their low acceptance rate.

It's all about enticing students who never have a chance to apply, then claiming a super low admissions rate.

With a growing population would you not expect the record to be broken most years?

In 2014, 1,360 students entered Yale's freshman class. This year they received 31,439 applications for roughly the same number of slots. Yikes!

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