rejected from a sure thing school????

tokenadult
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:14:08 +0000

this is all done in order to boost selectivity and USNWR rank



U.S. News has not included yield in its college rankings for several years, precisely because considering yield provides a perverse incentive to colleges to reject highly qualified applicants who may have other choice. But all the same, a college in the middle range of selectivity and desirability has to figure out how to offer admission to the applicants who are really the most interested in enrolling.