<p>Peytoncline Have you heard about Reveaed Preference Ranking ?
Have you heard about Princeton’s strategic admission process ?
Here is the link
<a href=“http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803.pdf?new_window=1[/url]”>http://www.nber.org/papers/w10803.pdf?new_window=1</a>
look page 6-7</p>
<p>Princeton admissions committee rejects top and best applicants because they know that the best one will not choose Princeton … Your friends case is the best example of Princeton’s
strategic admission process… :)</p>
<p>Yes Princeton administration knows that Princeton is well behind several top schools…
see page 26</p>
<p>Princeton’s Strategic admission process
““is potentially costly to the actual quality of an admissions class, with no clear benefit
beyond a higher reported matriculation rate.””</p>