<p>I often wonder if the Directors of Admission at the Universities and Colleges talk to each other about the common pool of applicants they have. Do they ever collude " You take her, and I will offer an admission to him". I think they have each others cell phone, office phone, email etc on Speed dial. Remember, they are all trying to improve their Yield. Their yields can only improve, if there is collusion between different Cohorts of Universities and Colleges. Maybe, I am wrong. Will you all please educate me?</p>
<p>Extremely doubtful. Either the school wants the student or not. And schools don’t have time to coordinate admission on thousands of applicants with each other.</p>
<p>No they don’t. The most that they do is email around a list of their Early Decision admits to the other places that care about ED. For everything else there is just plain too little time, too many applicants, and a ginormous bunch of lawyers waiting to get rich off the legal cases that would result from any perceived collusion.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>