High Stats Applicants: is there a point in applying to low tier schools?

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Arnold is an impressive guy. Grows up dirt poor and immigrates here, becomes a self-made millionaire off of a series of brilliant real estate investments by age 25, becomes a world tier champ bodybuilder, Hollywood superstar, and then finally governor of the only state that matters. He really only had one flaw...he was republican
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Imagine you were a school that only matriculates 2% of all the "high stat" applicants they interview.
As long as you accept OOS candidates you will get at least 2000 such applications.
Most schools have resources for 500 to <1000 interviews.
Even if you eliminate half of the "high stats" applicants (for the usual holistic reasons) and interview the other 1000, you have only filled 20 seats.

Unless there is a reason to believe that a very competitive applicant will attend your school (geography, price, affiliation...), there is no reason to squander resources.

If there were a limit on the number of applications, this math would change considerably.

So if you are willing to use up say 300 interviews on high stat applicants that don't really have a high % of matriculation per interview, how do you select those? What do you specifically look for in an app? Is it just family members who are affiliated with the school or is there something that normal applicants can do to stand out?
 
I applied to 2 very low tier schools... got rejected from both - without an interview invite even... :/
 
I wouldn't bother. High stats people have enough high tier and upper mid/mid tier schools to apply to already.
 
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