Yield Protection

[Anonymous]

What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

[Anonymous]

Conn college and Trinity college

[Anonymous]

https://blog.collegevine.com/what-is-yield-protection-tufts-syndrome

[Anonymous]

virginia tech big time

[Anonymous]

Elon

(I know a kid who got into Amherst and Penn but rejected from Elon!)

[Anonymous]

Emory invented it. If they smell Ivy on you you're out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:virginia tech big time

lol no

[Anonymous]

Just apply where you think you’d like to go if accepted, quit trying to second guess an inherently opaque decision making process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:virginia tech big time

1. VT is not a safety.
2. VT does not yield-protect and says as much right on their website.

"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/c...0yield%20protection.

[Anonymous]

I was going to ask about VT. Looking at Naviance is raised some concerns given the amount of blue and red in the upper R quandrant. Those kids weren’t rejected by they didn’t have the stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory invented it. If they smell Ivy on you you're out.

Agree

[Anonymous]

Case Western

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

Caveat, none of those (American, NYU, BU) would be safeties for a high stats kid even if they didn't yield protect because their acceptance rates would still be too low. For safeties, look well over 50%.

Also known for yield protection:
Santa Clara University
George Washington University

[Anonymous]

Purdue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just apply where you think you’d like to go if accepted, quit trying to second guess an inherently opaque decision making process.

Exactly.

And a "very strong " SAT isn't much, whatever that means ( just give the score).GPA could be meh. Basic ECs.