This is an article on ra again with lesson number 19. Student demonstrated interest. In this module we will learn about the importance of SDI for college admissions. This is an indicator of how interested a student is to attend a particular school or college. Recall that in lesson five, we learned about yield the percentage of admitted students in the school who actually enrolled, we analyze the yield numbers for Emery as follows. In the end, we concluded that only 7% of the original applicant pool actually ended up enrolling in Emory.
These 1345 students were loyal to Emory from the first time they seriously considered the school, perhaps through a campus visit, until the time they finally enrolled by paying their first year's fees. These students were demonstrably interested in Emory from the start. It should not be surprising that colleges and universities rank SDI as such a crucial factor in college admissions, more important than even a student's extracurricular activities. The goal of a college admissions office is after all, to increase the yield so that more students are committed to attending the college once they apply. Of course, we're assuming that the admissions office deems the students to be qualified to attend who attempt to lock students in colleges attract students with various offers such as Bonus points in the application process if family members went there, better scholarships, better rooms and dorms, increased opportunities to work on campus study abroad programs and the like.
Key takeaways with the popularity of the common app where a student can submit applications to dozens of schools with just a click a particular college is not sure if you're really interested in it. The more interested you are in a particular school, the more likely it is that they will look at your application in earnest. For example, a college takes note of your interest in them. When you write to them, call them or visit them. Or if you were to choose a particular college as a free recipient of SAP scores, remember that with your sad fi, you can send scores to four colleges for free. So if you choose a person Particular college to seniors scores, it is likely that you really like that college.
Otherwise, why would you want to waste away a free score slot. selective colleges wishing to tame the yield challenge. also adopt several tricks to make sure that only genuinely interested students apply. For example, they may simply make it harder to mass apply by adding a college specific supplemental essay. This will likely deter students from applying to the school unless they're really interested in the institution. Or selective colleges may offer an early decision window to lock you in or early action programs to show that they're really interested in you.
If you are in them. We will learn all about Eb and EA in the next lesson. There is one caveat sometimes colleges use SDI as a marketing tool to artificially elevate their college ranking. These colleges don't make it harder to mass apply, they actually make it easier. When many more students apply than there are seats for and the college gets to turn them away, it will look as though the college is highly selective. High selectivity is usually the number one factor in college ranking algorithms.
This will help the college's ranking rise. We will discuss rankings in a separate lesson. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank you.