<p>Yeah, Harvard is a bad example. Good examples would be schools like Penn or Duke that are admitting the same kids as HYS and losing them to HYS. If I’m Duke, and I have an applicant from Boston Latin who looks to me like a Harvard admit, and he didn’t apply early to Duke, I’m going to be very tempted to wait-list that kid. </p>
<p>High schools that get a lot of kids into hyperselective schools usually know how to guide the kids; when Exeter or BL gets a HYPS-qualified kid whose first choice really is Penn, they’ll tell the kid to make sure to apply early to Penn. This isn’t breaking any rules of the road. Colleges would try to predict yield even if every HS followed the rules 100% of the time.</p>