<p>I have read that schools would evaluate whether an applicant is likely to accept their offer and try to avoid being turned down. Why do they care about it? What are they looking at to determine whether you will accept their offer? Other schools you apply to, your stats, interest, and maybe FA application? Just wanted to have a new thread devoted to some in-depth discussion on this matter.</p>
<p>perhaps they would like to keep their acceptance rate low, and their applicant acceptance rate high.</p>
<p>If you only have a limited number of spaces to fill, with five applicants for every one space, and at least four of those five applicants are "qualified" for admission...why would you waste a spot on someone who isn't going to come?</p>
<p>Things to consider: the other schools you're applying to (mentioned in your interview); your extracurricular activities (e.g. let's say you sail and four out of the five schools you're applying to have sailing teams but one doesn't...or you're a big musician and my school doesn't have a very strong orchestra, or perhaps doesn't have an orchestra at all); your family's connections to any other school (if 14 members of your family all went to Choate, you're probably not going to go to Deerfield); the level of interest you displayed for the school when you interviewed; your stats (if you have 99th percentile scores and straight A+s and you're ready for calculus as a 9th grader, you might not go to a "safety school"); more things I can't think of right now....</p>
<p>Hmm, I wonder if that will work to my favor? I'm only applying to onee schoool.</p>
<p>And, any student you put on the waitlist may not want to wait around, on the off chance that spot will open up. The student on the waitlist might be far more likely to say "yes" from the start. The school does not want to have spaces unfilled in mid-April.</p>
<p>Things to consider: your family's connections to any other school (if 14 members of your family all went to Choate, you're probably not going to go to Deerfield); </p>
<p>I couldn't help but smile when I read this. My father went to Choate. I went to Choate. And when it came time for my younger brother to go to BS, he went to ..... Deerfield.:)</p>
<p>yield rates. <-- they want to be as accurate as they can.</p>
<p>GemmaV, so it sounds to me that the safety schools (understand that one's safety school may be someone else's match or even reach school) could be more likely to put someone on the waitlist or even decline someone out of the "yield rate" consideration. The top tier schools (especially some big name ones) which are almost everyone's reach schools will be less likely to do that? Or it's the other way round as they care more about their yield rates?</p>
<p>No, I think pretty much all schools consider how likely you are to accept their offer of admission, or how likely they can woo you in April to do so, before offering you admission.</p>
<p>hmmm, tricky business. So what does everyone do to make sure your top choice/choices will not "misunderstand" you and put you on waitlist or even decline you out of the consideration of "yield rates"?</p>
<p>Now I understand why people are less than candid in revealing the schools where they are applying to. Especially when your child's favorite school changes. The schools want to maximize their yield, but the families need to maximize their acceptances.</p>
<p>o i see...
but im applying to exeter/andover/sps, and my top choice right now is sps (it keeps changing, but it's sps right now). on the apps they asked for the other schools im applying to, and I put down the other 2... would that then, hurt my chances of getting into SPS?</p>
<p>o i see...
but im applying to exeter/andover/sps, and my top choice right now is sps (it keeps changing, but it's sps right now). on the apps they asked for the other schools im applying to, and I put down the other 2... would that then, hurt my chances of getting into SPS?</p>
<p>(not that SPS isn't good or anything... just not AS top as Andover and Exeter?)</p>
<p>...? I think they expect that, if you plan on getting into SPS your second choice probably wont be Kent. That would just look stupid lol, Im sure 90% of their students are applying to A/e also</p>
<p>Just a thought: Do the very top schools think this way or is it mostly schools that are up and coming, trying to build their reputations, that have to consider yield when offering admissions? It seems from looking at last years posts several kids were accepted to both A/E and other top schools so it didn't look like they were worried about the applicant going to the other school instead of theirs. In other words, do schools only worry about yield when they sense they are your "safety" or "match" school?</p>