<p>A slightly differnt topic but in the same vein. I am wondering how the enrollment management systems view the Common Application. Under the Common Application agreement all schools agree that there is no additional benefit in submitting the school application instead of the common application. However, there may be a difference within the enrollment management algorithms.</p>
<p>The reason I ask is that using the Common Application may be viewed as not as committed to a particular school as it would be if they had used the institutional application. Again, perhaps impacting yield. And maybe a reason USNews eliminated yield in determining its rankings.</p>
<p>Further, if schools are looking at the CSS profile to try to determine school preference is there something similar in the Common Application information provided to schools? For example, do the other schools have access to whether a student applied EA at another school? Even if it is an open EA school? Do they get a list of other Common Application schools to which students applied? Perhaps this is a bit moot if they get this information from the CSS Profile anyway. Just wondering.</p>