<p>Does anyone know if there is any data on acceptance versus matriculation numbers from the various BS’s? We haven’t yet got our password for Naviance which is where I am assuming i will find those numbers.</p>
<p>Yes, Harvest moon, that’s the only way in most cases since few schools publish acceptance data. College counselors of course know a lot more than what’s published and even what’s on Naviance including the early app data, recruited athletes data and cross admits data etc, which are truly the “devils in the details.”</p>
<p>Found some rare acceptance vs matriculation data for Middlesex class '13. You can see some colleges with undoubtedly high yield but without knowing more about cross-admits, it’s hard to argue one way or another about the trend with colleges with less than 100% yield. For example, did the two admitted into Columbia but decided not to attend chose Harvard or NYU?
<a href=“http://mxschool.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Matriculation%202013.pdf[/url]”>http://mxschool.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Matriculation%202013.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks Benley. So they have 34 Ivy/Stanford/MIT admits and 20 attending those schools. So would assume most of the other 14 were cross admits. Just realized that without additional data, the acceptance numbers really don’t shed much light.</p>
<p>Stumbled across this when searching for something else on the internet and found it interesting reading so thought I would share: [Phillips</a> Academy - Inside College Counseling](<a href=“http://www.andover.edu/about/newsroom/pages/inside-college-counseling.aspx]Phillips”>http://www.andover.edu/about/newsroom/pages/inside-college-counseling.aspx)</p>
<p>Wondering about the concept of “expressed interest” now being considered in the application process. Obviously they can track visits, contact with admissions officers, coaches and other staff, but how would they track how many times you visited their website? Most sites do not require a sign in and an applicant might use many different household or outside computers when researching schools. So how is this tracking done?</p>
<p>With cookies</p>
<p>Does cookies track to your computer? And how is that computer matched correctly to an applicant? Sorry I am not really a techie.</p>
<p>Cookies are stored on your computer. But that’s not the only way websites can track who visits their pages. It’s an entire industry. If you use google chrome as your browser, do a little experiement. Google search something like “organic dog food” and then watch to see what kind of banner ads appear on the websites you visit. Creepy, eh?</p>
<p>The technology is absolutely there to see how many times a particular machine or a particular IP address is used to visit a college. How much they use this technology, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I just came across this Harvard Crimson article discussing “feeder” schools to Harvard; they mentioned the importance of selective admissions, intense academic challenge and college counseling, and named the top 7 schools (which account for 5% of Harvard students), a mix of public and private, New England and New York; </p>
<p>Wondered what you all thought - maybe it just boils down to legacy? But still interesting for this thread.</p>
<p>[The</a> Making of a Harvard Feeder School | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/13/making-harvard-feeder-schools/]The”>The Making of a Harvard Feeder School | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>