<p>roshke - Good point about the historical yield rate. I guess it doesn't help that the sole Yale admit last year didn't attend...</p>
<p>cptofthehouse - The thing is, I don't think a college would blacklist a school for more than 2-3 years. I think they would just make an impressionable statement and then move on (like what mikemac said). Otherwise everyone would seriously come from the same schools every year and the colleges would miss out on some great candidates.</p>
<p>OpiefromMayberry - I never thought of it that way. Sweet insight.</p>
<p>sybbie719 - Wow, I wouldn't have even looked for those since the schedule a couple months ago didn't have any events in NJ. Thanks!</p>
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<p>After a lot of thinking and discussing, I'm fully decided that I'll pursue Yale early just because I feel like I should apply early based on where I want to go, not where I will get in. And even though my reasons are primarily emotional, I'm a pretty intuitive guy and so I'm ready to run with that. So I guess we can forget about that part of this thread. =P</p>
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<p>But there's still the question of whether my school could actually be blacklisted by some institutions and whether others favor us in particular for some reason. Oh and about blacklisting - apparently it's not so much about the fact that somebody lied or somebody chose another school; it's about their reflection on the guidance department and college advising system at the high school. Like if a counselor allowed a student to apply early to both Yale and Harvard, the school would probably be less likely to trust that counselor, or worse, the entire guidance department/school, at least for a couple years. Here's some stoires I've heard/know:</p>
<p>I've heard quite a bit about blacklisting concerning my school.</p>
<p>Princeton - I heard one girl was either deferred or waitlisted at Princeton one year, and so she got her father to call the admissions office incessantly. They eventually let her in, but then Princeton admitted very few students (1-2 people/year) each year for 2-3 years. Since then, they have regularly accepted about 10 kids annually.</p>
<p>Yale - I heard that two years ago someone applied SCEA to both Harvad and Yale, and chose Harvard. All I know is that the only 2 people who have been accepted to Yale since then were both legacies with phenomenal profiles, and they both got into Harvard early, and only one went to Yale in the end. Nobody got in SCEA last year, and they were all rejected in the end. They went on to schools like Columbia, Northwestern, Dartmouth, and Duke (one of I think 15 to receive a full merit scholarship as an A.B. scholar or something).</p>
<p>Harvard - This past year, someone got in SCEA but had their admission rescinded because they were caught lying on their application. I haven't been able to see the consequences of that, but something tells me to expect fewer acceptances this year.</p>
<p>Stanford - I don't know why, but they haven't taken anyone from my school in at least three years. As I said before, one kid applied early this past year and was deferred and rejected from Stanford, and then admitted into Harvard RD.</p>
<p>Princeton literally accepted almost nobody from my school for a while, and then we saw a burst of acceptances, and it's the opposite with Yale and Stanford. Cornell and Penn have about 4 times as many students from my school currently enrolled than Harvard or Yale (my school releases the number of students attending each institution in the past three years in the school profile), but they've been accepting fewer students in the past year or two. Since there have been distinguishable periods of many acceptances and nearly all rejections for some schools, it would make sense that impressionable preferences DO have some influence - whether it's rewarding or punishing the guidance department, or based on the historical yield from that school, or based on the academic performance of students from that school. But I'd still like some more opinions! Especially on how to be successful at a school that isn't as fond of your school as you are of them.</p>
<p>Oh and the problem with my situation is that my guidance counselor just came to my school last year, so I don't think she knows much about my school's relationships with most colleges. Although she did tell me that she had a long, thorough conversation with a Brandeis representative, and he's really enthusiastic about getting some kids from my school in particular. So I guess the process is very human and open to influence, right?</p>