Northeastern University - Merit Scholarship -

neuchimie
Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:40:39 +0000

Actually, it is real. It’s clearly not as obvious and common as people like to pretend, but yield rates do matter to schools. Students don’t care about yield rates at all, but rankings do. And prospective students do care about rankings, as do other schools.

However I was referring to the student’s view in that situation, not the college. Meaning, if you write your essay for one school and it bleeds evidence towards another school, other schools might pick up on it. Imagine writing an essay for how amazing it’d be to be in the central of finance for a business major, because you wrote it for NYU. When someone in Boston reads that, they wonder what you’re referring to. I worked in admissions and heard stories that had this type of problem just as much as people accidentally leaving another school’s name in the essay.