<p>Yeah, let’s look at it this way. Can you believe that when they get to the War Room, any AO isn’t aware of how many applicants she or he is likely to get? Remember, often the AOs have a region. Can you imagine Harvard giving any AO many more admissions than another AO if Harvard wants to remain a (inter)national university? In addition, at places like Harvard the AOs know their high schools but the experienced AOs know them, too, might have covered them at one time. So the names of the high schools are in the air in the War Room, and if the name of any one high school that usually comes up doesn’t come up, there are 2 or 3 or more people in the room who are aware of that. To have many more admissions at one high school than you did the year before means that those admissions had to come from some other high school in the region, or they had to come from some other AO’s region. How long do you think that can go on before things even themselves out again? </p>