This shouldn’t be a surprise, but my feeling is this principle combined with a little reflection on how things likely look from different colleges’ competitive situations more or less explains almost everything we can observe about unhooked admissions. Obviously it gets complicated when an applicant could help fulfill other institutional priorities. But outside of that, I really don’t think there are many, if any, notable proven cases of a college not just trying to build the best class it can (as it defines that, of course).
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