Email from Pton admissions?

[Sikorsky]

<p>From May 2011:</p>

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Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are scaling back their marketing, saying they don’t want to encourage kids who likely won’t be accepted. Yale, which admitted 7.4 percent of applicants this year, cut its mailings by a third since 2005 to 80,000, Jeffrey Brenzel, dean of undergraduate admissions, said in an interview.

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<p>[Ivy</a> League Colleges Solicit Students Rejected for Stake of Selectivity - Bloomberg](<a href=“http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-13/ivy-league-solicits-students-to-boost-selectivity.html]Ivy”>Ivy League Solicits Students Rejected for Stake of Selectivity - Bloomberg)</p>

<p>The article does not, of course, rule out the possibility that other highly selective colleges are still trying to inflate their applicant pools, but I do not suspect Princeton or Harvard of doing this.</p>