Is Colleges' Want for Increasing Yield a Disadvantage for Disadvantaged Students?

Applying to College
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<p>If you visit or do an on campus interview at a specific unversity, they are more likely to accept you, because all universities want to increase their yield and if they know you are interested in attending their school, they’ll accept you if you have right grades, test scores, and ECs.</p>

<p>But this should be pose a problem for disadvantaged students. Most of them don’t have transportation to universities that are even only a couple of their homes, can’t afford to financially, and/or they and their parents have to work long hours and can’t take a day or two off to visit colleges. </p>

<p>How a disadvantaged student show interest in a college? I would guess that filling “request info” online on a college’s website or spotting by a college’s booth at a local college fair wouldn’t be as remotely sufficiently than visiting.</p>

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<p>There are various ways why yield protection puts disadvantaged students at a disadvantage, among them being the Early Decision program, but on campus interviews are not one of them. Most schools do not offer them, and there is no difference between an alumni interview and an on-campus one.</p>

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<p>Top universities (around 1-20) don’t factor in “demonstrated interest” for that very reason. Your correct in your assessment, although I’m sure many universities can identify the difference of when an applicant doesn’t visit because of financial reasons and when he/she doesn’t visit due to lack of interest.</p>

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<p>You could e-mail your admissions counselor. But schools are starting to not count things like college visits b/c they realize that there are factors that could inhibit students from visiting.</p>