. As a main motivation for these reforms the policymakers cited strategic flaws of the rules: students had strong … incentives to game the system, which caused dramatic consequences for non-strategic students. However, almost none of the new … manipulate. Simultaneously, the admission to each school became strategy-proof to a larger set of students, making the schools …

instrument in competing with other colleges for students …

, mostly through a steady reduction in the number of openings for new students. Individuals that reached college age shortly …