<p>The revealed preference study indicates that 62% of applicants admitted to both Y and P choose Y, 35% of those admitted to Y and H choose Y. <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html</a></p>
<p>I’m sure Y would be delighted to raise the number of cross-admits it wins from both of its main rivals. But I can’t imagine that they’d strategically reject an EA applicant because of his/her ties to another institution. What Yale is doing is carefully courting the kids they do admit EA with a private facebook-type site they’ve created on the Yale website. I’m sure the hope is that by April, the EA admits will feel an unbreakable connection to Yale. I think the revealed preference study is based on data collected about a decade ago. I wonder if H and P’s elimination of their early plans and Y (and S’s) retention of theirs has benefited anyone in the battle for cross-admits.</p>