<p>^So you’re saying that managing yield is not the reason colleges ask this question? </p>
<p>For instance, an applicant to Washington St. Louis would not be disadvantaged by listing 3 of 4 ivy leagues under the “other colleges you are applying to” question.
Or an applicant to Yale may not be impacted by listing Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford as other colleges they are applying to.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t matter what you put down, then why are people on this thread so averse to answering this question?</p>