Communicating a preference to admissions

Benley
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:30:53 +0000

Supposedly, to protect their yield the schools may make educated guess on whether you would accept their offer of admission. They may waitlist or even reject an otherwise admissible applicant if they believe you won’t attend anyway. I can’t say how extensively this practice is and how you can avoid the “trap”. The advice I got was to let the school know what you like about them and imply why it is reasonable that you’d accept their offer if there is one in the future.