Do selective schools tell students to apply so they can just reject them?

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<p>@Sharing,</p>

<p>I’m not making this stuff up. It is commonly recognized, growing trend in college marketing for colleges to tout for more applications to deliberately boost the number of rejections. The rat race is being driven by U.S. News & World Reports ranking:</p>

<p>[Colleges</a> Rise as They Reject - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324731304578189282282976640.html]Colleges”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324731304578189282282976640.html)

Schools are in effect benefiting from courting more students, many of whom they will eventually reject.

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<p><a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/steve-cohen-on-the-three-biggest-college-admissions-lies.html[/url]”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/steve-cohen-on-the-three-biggest-college-admissions-lies.html&lt;/a&gt;

Colleges love a big applicant pool, not just to craft a more attractive class but to show the ranking services just how selective they are. (In the perverse rankings world, more rejections equal a higher ranking.) Instead, colleges are using several forms of numbers subterfuge to obfuscate what is really going on.

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<p>I was hoping that prep schools were beyond this</p>