<p>"...a consortium called the Ten Schools Admissions Organization, which includes ten boarding schools in the Northeast. This group of schools shares dates of admission notification and response and also coordinates travel and outreach efforts."</p>
<p>Is it true? If so, does it mean the school I applied to can know what other schools I also applied to (from 10)? Do you think not having told all the names of the schools I applied to will have some kind of an effect?</p>
<p>No, they don’t share information about candidates before March 10th. That would violate antitrust regulations. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/666209-communication-between-schools.html?highlight=antitrust[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/666209-communication-between-schools.html?highlight=antitrust</a></p>
<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>This poses an interesting question. Is it clear that the sharing of admissions information by 2 or more non-profit entities violates federal antitrust laws?</p>
<p>Antitrust laws are intended prevent monolpolistic and collusive business practices resulting in excess profits and consumer price manipulation. I would think that the laws would be applied rarely, if ever, to non-profits. Even if the law applies to schools, I am not sure that sharing admission information, without evidence that it results in collusive pricing, would violate the law. </p>
<p>Are there cases where antitrust laws have been applied to academic institutions?</p>
<p>Good point, Stats21. I too have doubts about antitrust laws being applied to such scenario. The ten schools do openly get together after each admission cycle to exchange information, analyze the trends and maybe learn from each other, but it is a mystery whether they would discuss individual application prior to March 10. My guess is that they wouldn’t in general (it’s just some additional work without much benifit gained),but when it comes to special cases such as recrutied atheletes they may.</p>
<p>Lol Deerfield knew I was applying to Andover nd choate nd their program was interested</p>
<p>there were elite colleges charged by the justice department with violating antitrust laws in the admission process perhaps 10 years ago. if memory serves me, the financial aid offered to applicants was discussed between schools, so as to limit competition. This helped schools manage yield and aid offered, and divided the most talented students amongst the oligopoly of elite schools. A settlement was negotiated and the practice supposedly ended.</p>
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Makes sense to me. Thanks for sharing.</p>