An Entire Thread on Naviance and Prep Schools

soxmom
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:40:24 +0000

Ok, fair point, @Periwinkle. I guess maybe that wasn’t the best way of referring to it. But I’m looking at a couple of schools that accepted literally almost every single student who applied, even if the student had near-perfect test scores and a GPA a full point higher than the average. I would venture to guess that these schools knew full well that they were very unlikely to have those students matriculate. It’s a pretty dramatic comparison to some other schools that I would “rank” as being similar, but who largely reject those near-perfect GPA/score kids, presumably because they know they’re not going to matriculate. The former group of schools has made a decision that even if accepting those kids drives their yield numbers down, they don’t mind because there’s at least some chance that one or two might accept. The latter group of schools seems to weigh those factors differently, and conclude that since those kids are very unlikely to attend, they may as well reject and protect their yield. Neither approach is right or wrong, just interesting to see the difference.