I haven't visited- matter?

emperor550
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:39:38 +0000

Emory and WashU care about demonstrated interest because it helps to show which students are seriously considering their schools. These schools are trying to improve their yield rates and, hence, don’t want to accept kids who have never visited and clearly are using the colleges as safeties.

Ivys like Dartmouth have yields so high that they can assume that most people that are admitted will seriously consider matriculating. Maybe they use demonstrated interest as a tip factor in the most rare cases, but I even doubt that.