<p>Two things I have been pondering.</p>
<p>-If a school has say a 66% acceptance rate and they meet capacity, do you think they have interest in getting more applications? More could mean they could be more selective and raise their average ACT/SAT and GPA. Is there any other reason a school would want more applications?</p>
<p>-What other criteria do you think goes into an acceptance other than the stuff on the application? Sure gender or race might factor in (which is technically on the application) but do you think there might be any other criteria used in the acceptance? For instance, if a school lacked students from a certain geographical area, do you think that might be considered over the same student living within 100 miles of the school?</p>
<p>Again, just two things I have been considering. Maybe there is nothing there.</p>
<p>There is nothing there. The Common Data Set for each school defines what they use for admission. They will always evaluate the RD applicants for the best pool. As far as geographic options, look at section C7 of the CDS - Geographical Residence and State Residency.</p>
<p>Schools always want more apps so that they can be more selective.</p>
<p>As for geographic diversity…a lot depends on the school. For most schools, geographic diversity is very desirable. So, a student from an unusual state might get accepted with lower stats. However, for some state schools that control the number of OOS students, being OOS is a negative. </p>
<p>Schools with more girls than boy, will prefer more boys…and vice versa. </p>
<p>Privates are more likely to accept URMs with lower stats…publics sometimes have a harder time because their admissions are often more formula-based.</p>