Yield protect

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On CC there was a kid who was accepted to Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Boston College, but deferred to Villanova. I believe this is definitely an example of yield protection. His stats below:

Deferred - Business
ACT 35 (32M, 35R, 35E, 36S)
SAT 1530 (790M 740V)
SATII Math 800 History 760

Looks made up or a typo in the math act, it’s much easier than sat math

How in the world would know if it’s made up? Your gut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On CC there was a kid who was accepted to Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Boston College, but deferred to Villanova. I believe this is definitely an example of yield protection. His stats below:

Deferred - Business
ACT 35 (32M, 35R, 35E, 36S)
SAT 1530 (790M 740V)
SATII Math 800 History 760

Looks made up or a typo in the math act, it’s much easier than sat math

How in the world would know if it’s made up? Your gut?

Why mad up? The science section is t really science but reading, which this kid does well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a college is yield protecting, why wouldn’t they just put the higher stats kid on the waiting list? Then they wouldn’t have to worry about looking bad if the kid got a better offer, but if the kid didn’t get any better offers, wouldn’t they be glad to have him?

They do. "Yield protection" is vastly overblown - demand is sufficient at most schools regularly discussed on this forum that a school need not limit itself to high stat kids. Some folks just get offended that an admissions officer was not blown away by their scores or found their essay below average. There is a large random factor to admissions people don't want to admit to and write it off as yield protection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a college is yield protecting, why wouldn’t they just put the higher stats kid on the waiting list? Then they wouldn’t have to worry about looking bad if the kid got a better offer, but if the kid didn’t get any better offers, wouldn’t they be glad to have him?

They do. "Yield protection" is vastly overblown - demand is sufficient at most schools regularly discussed on this forum that a school need not limit itself to high stat kids. Some folks just get offended that an admissions officer was not blown away by their scores or found their essay below average. There is a large random factor to admissions people don't want to admit to and write it off as yield protection.

+1

"Yield protection" is how people explain a child's denial or waitlisting when they aren't completely aware of the competitiveness of admission at some schools. DC was just TOO smart and talented!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a college is yield protecting, why wouldn’t they just put the higher stats kid on the waiting list? Then they wouldn’t have to worry about looking bad if the kid got a better offer, but if the kid didn’t get any better offers, wouldn’t they be glad to have him?

They do. "Yield protection" is vastly overblown - demand is sufficient at most schools regularly discussed on this forum that a school need not limit itself to high stat kids. Some folks just get offended that an admissions officer was not blown away by their scores or found their essay below average. There is a large random factor to admissions people don't want to admit to and write it off as yield protection.

+1

"Yield protection" is how people explain a child's denial or waitlisting when they aren't completely aware of the competitiveness of admission at some schools. DC was just TOO smart and talented!

+ 1000 I always laugh at the posts where parents are shocked that DC didn't get into some selective college that they thought was a slam dunk and then cry yield protection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a college is yield protecting, why wouldn’t they just put the higher stats kid on the waiting list? Then they wouldn’t have to worry about looking bad if the kid got a better offer, but if the kid didn’t get any better offers, wouldn’t they be glad to have him?

They do. "Yield protection" is vastly overblown - demand is sufficient at most schools regularly discussed on this forum that a school need not limit itself to high stat kids. Some folks just get offended that an admissions officer was not blown away by their scores or found their essay below average. There is a large random factor to admissions people don't want to admit to and write it off as yield protection.

+1

"Yield protection" is how people explain a child's denial or waitlisting when they aren't completely aware of the competitiveness of admission at some schools. DC was just TOO smart and talented!

+ 1000 I always laugh at the posts where parents are shocked that DC didn't get into some selective college that they thought was a slam dunk and then cry yield protection.

Yield protection only applies to high stats students. Low stats kids don't have that problem.

Yield protection only applies to second-tier selective schools such as Washington, Emory, case western reserve, etc. Highly selective schools like HYPS don't need to yield protect.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, Captain Obvious. None of those is "second tier" but no need to hijack the thread. YP is an overblown idea.