<p>Consider another scenario. A perfect 1600/3x800/4.0 candidate applies to HYP. Harvard thinks he is too “standard” and rejects him (perhaps, by one vote). Yale and Princeton think he will go to Harvard anyway and reject/waitlist him to preserve their yield (rumors are, Pton uses this practice). In the end a 1600 gets rejected from all three schools. I am sure I saw a couple of cases in Roster threads, and ppl couldn’t figure out what happened. Perhaps they didn’t express enough love to Y or P in their application or they made a mistake by telling their interviewers they applied to Harvard. In any case, they can be victims of the admission game.</p>