<p>i was wondering what percentage of the hyp accepted pools are shared between the 3 schools? i have a feeling that people with general hooks will have high chances of acceptance into all 3, meaning high-achieving minorities/research achievment/atheletes. i'm sure there's also other well-rounded applicants that find acceptances to more than 1 of these 3 schools.
i feel like in the RD round, roughly the same people apply to hyp. of course its not exact, but top applicants most likely all apply to hyp. so 1) is it true that hyp accepts, in large part, the same class and 2) do adcoms confer during the decision-making process about the admits? i know top schools want top candidates to matriculate, but is there any reason to believe that these schools compromise amongst each other or discuss their acceptees? This idea came to me because i read something on CC a while ago about how yale sends letters to ppl accepted EA to harvard encouraging them to apply to yale.
i don't know if thats true, but if it is it would imply that harvard told yale who they accepted. that itself confuses me because i thought that a possible acceptance from yale to a harvard acceptee would decrease the matriculation % at harvard.</p>
<p>but this is all speculation on my part, so im totally open to what anyone else knows</p>
<p>No, they don't confer with each other and do things like divvy up candidates.</p>
<p>Up until several years ago, they did confer, however, over financial aid decisions, but the federal government stopped that under, I think, the antitrust law.</p>
<p>From what I've seen as an alum interviewer, there may be overlap between, for instance, candidates who get into HPY because that's where the very top candidates apply, and sometimes the most absolutely stellar of those will get into multiple Ivies. It's not, however, because the colleges are confering on decisions.</p>
<p>I've also seen stellar applicants who get into some Ivies (including one or two of HPY), but not all.</p>
<p>Remember, too, that the top colleges select students to create well rounded classes. H may need, for instance, a bassoon player or a student from N.D., but Y may need someone completely different to round out their class.</p>
<p>It's kind of disgusting how for Byerly it all boils down to yield. There's a very easy way to boost your yield: admit a bunch of athletes (or mediocre students) with no chance of getting in elsewhere. Boom.</p>
<p>Have you seen the SAT/Admit curves for HMP? Care to offer a defense of Harvards admit manipulation?</p>
<p>What "admit curves" are you talking about? "The Early Admissions Game" stats? I don't see much Harvard "manipulation there. Is there something I'm missing?</p>
<p>See also the discussion in the newly-revised "Revealed Preference" study.</p>
<p>Certainly "selectivity" means getting your pick of the top students, which means not only a higher overall yield rate but a major share of the cross-admits when you go head-to-head with other elites, and of course, at the end of the day, having a high quality group of matriculants, as measured by average SAT score, fraction of NMS winners, etc.</p>