Out-of-the-blue email from adrep

<p>Gosh, I almost forgot. I read on another board that the reason for doing it is to keep applicants with very competitive credentials from committing too soon to other colleges that might give admission decisions sooner. For example, some of the public U’s and less selective private colleges provide admission decisions on a rolling admissions basis or a few weeks sooner than schools like Oberlin (my D found out about her flagship state U in December but Oberlin in March).</p>

<p>So, if your son or daughter has already been admitted to, say, Muhlenberg or Franklin and Marshall, and you are a strong possibility (but not a guarantee) for Oberlin, they don’t want you to commit to Muhlenberg or Franklin and Marshall before they know what their full RD admission class will look like, hence the love letters.</p>

<p>I’m sure Oberlin isn’t the only college that does this.</p>