Declining Admission, When do you do it?

[ucbalumnus]

@gardenstategal

^^ Colleges do not “offer a spot” to another student when one declines. They have yield projections and expect a certain number of students to decline.

Admits who decline or matriculate early are new information to the college for the purpose of managing the size of its incoming class. Do you really expect colleges to ignore this new information that can be used to adjust yield expectations?