<p>I get how important accurate yield management is, but I always figured that if a school wants someone, as long as the student has adequately expressed interest, the school would accept that student and presume a yield likelihood based on historical average. Also, this makes me wonder how to deal with supplemental applications that request info about what other schools the student is applying to – even if the applicant is careful and just lists three other similarly ranked schools, if school x may pre-emptively waitlist an applicant on the basis that two-thirds of kids who get into school y also will choose it over school x, that is bad for the kid who might really prefer school x. And bad for school x.</p>