Is yield protect real? Which colleges like to YP?
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Over the years, I've seen students admitted to MIT but waitlisted at Georgia Tech, or admitted to Yale but not Duke, for the same intended major. I wonder, what kinds of colleges tend to yield protect? With ED and ED2, I feel UChicago is a prime example.
On the other hand, I feel the top 5 (HYPSM) seem to grab the best applicants and do not care much about yield protect. |
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Yale Duke is not surprising.
They are both top lottery schools. Anything can happen. |
Anonymous
Harvard got sued and lost for discriminating and not admitting the best applicants. |
Anonymous
| Schools I guess try, but it still is hard. Clemson, JMU, Case Western, etc try to yield protect (maybe) yet their yields are all less than 20%…so maybe they don’t? |
Anonymous
No, they don't? Do you have any proof of this? |
Anonymous
| Middlebury and NYU yield protect. |
Anonymous
Nobody has any proof of any school. |
Anonymous
| The only schools that "yield protect" are those that rejected your kid. |
Anonymous
| Conn college yield protects without demonstrated interest and I’m sure many similar schools do as well. |
Anonymous
I think mine was yield protected by Midd. Arts chair was very interested, communicating that they gave her portfolio their highest score and offering a personal zoom interview. High stats w/great ECs/awards. She was waitlisted but accepted to several T15. Maybe Williams as well? They rejected her, and I'm wondering if the fact that she came from a stem magnet (most kids don't chose LACs from this magnet). Also, both of those were tough RD admits anyway. And, I think both made the right call for them. I don't think she would have chosen either of them over her top two admits. |
Anonymous
+1 Seriously Middlebury? They accept 70% of their class ED, obviously getting in RD is going to be tough. And MIT, but not Georgia Tech doesn’t make sense as a yield protection either. I’m sure Georgia Tech has a <10% acceptance rate OOS for CS/Engineering majors. |
Anonymous
Yes. Yield protection is pure cope. “They rejected Timmy but ackshually it’s because he was too good for that school.” |
Anonymous
Don't mock--it might well happen to your kid. I know first hand of a student who was accepted to Columbia and rejected or waitlisted (can't remember which) at Northeastern. |
Anonymous
This is just not true. I can think of at least 4 scattergrams off the top of my head that show obvious yield protection. |
Anonymous
Exactly. Never fails. |