Demonstrated interest —good or bad?

pishicaca
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:19:44 +0000

Demonstrated interest is about maximizing yield and creating a community full of people who want to be a part of it. They are not saying…”Oh, her demonstrated interest is high…let’s try to get her to go EDII.” They are saying…”Her demonstrated interest is low. She may not want to be here, so we’ll either reject her and focus on the students who have shown that they do want to be a part of our community or defer her so if she really does want to be here, she has another opportunity to show us.” So if you are applying to a school that considers demonstrated interest and you choose not to show interest out of fear of it being leveraged against you, you have not helped yourself by playing hard to get.

And neither yield nor acceptance rate is used in the rankings of USNWR, Forbes, Washington Monthly or Wall Street Journal. Yield is used as a minimal factor in the Money rankings (1.5%). Schools are not trying to maximize yield nor minimize acceptance rate with the goal of impacting rankings. Each has its own benefit to the schools, but neither is a significant factor influencing rankings.