The Plague of ‘Early Decision’

[DeepBlue86]

Oh, I get it, @Penn95 - you’re rereading and reacting to post #299, where I said the following:

Another thought: HYPS could establish the “Premier League” for admissions purposes, and agree that students could apply to multiple schools EA but only one from the Premier League…

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It would also, in a funny way, look like HYP were formally admitting S to the club, which I’m not sure HYP want to do. Even though S is now clearly tops in selectivity/yield, it’s a different animal from HYP. Much younger, much more about sports and tech, much less about the arts and humanities (despite excellent resources there), and located in California, which has its own attractions and subjects S to much less local competition than the Ivies face. This all makes S a potent nationwide threat, particularly to H, which in many ways has the most to lose if S can make a credible claim to being #1 overall.

I stand by what I said - notwithstanding that Stanford’s a clear peer of HYP, it would do HYP (and particularly H) no good to admit it in this way. I wasn’t making an argument about relative prestige - again, I think that’s a subject for many other threads (see, for example, @Hunt’s genius invention of “prestigiosity” as measured in “milliHarvards”, or “mH”).