Meanwhile, employers may have a hard time finding top applicants.
In addition, he notes, "colleges want to have high rankings because it generates more top applicants".
However, the success rates of top applicants vary wildly, with many receiving no offers, while some secure the maximum four.
At Yale, he helped diversify the applicant pool and pioneered the university's use of a "likely letter," sent to top applicants before official acceptances.
The government's reforms will nurture high-quality provision in the dozen or so universities that attract large numbers of top applicants.
All of that along with, preferably, a new stem-cell lab that can be used in promotional tours in turn attracts more top applicants.
At the same time, the government has lifted its cap on the number of students each institution can recruit, which has left many scrabbling for the top applicants.
While some said the event highlighted the super-secret nature of Ivy League admissions, many visiting Princeton said it was simply a case of an overzealous admissions officer who spent months trying to lure top applicants -- who had been accepted to Princeton as well as other elite universities -- to come here.
In the meantime, the incident is being looked into by the United States Attorney in New Haven and an independent investigator brought in by Princeton Whether they were motivated by cutthroat competition or innocent curiosity remains to be seen, but Princeton's shenanigans underscore the lengths to which admissions officers are willing to go to recruit top applicants.
Given that the top applicants are likely to be ranked highly by multiple programs, we sought to determine which factors applicants themselves used to evaluate potential residency programs.
