Yield management is not the same thing as yield protection. Yield management - 5000 highly qualified candidates apply but you have only 1000 slots. You make offers to ~1200 because you have data that shows ~20% will decline. You pick the 1200 by best guess as to good match based on the application. Yield protection - 5000 highly qualified candidates apply, but you toss out the top 500 because you think they are overqualified and wonโt accept even if offered admission. Then you select from the rest. Every school has to manage yield. The more uncertainty in the process overall, the more they have to use the waitlist, because they canโt risk over enrollment. |
Your kid did not get into VT, and I understand that made you sad/angry. You can't fathom that institutional priorities are a factor, and VT had so many highly qualified applicants that they can pick and choose among them to fill their priority buckets. So you decide to falsely proclaim that your kid was waitlisted because of yield protection. I suppose you are welcome to think/say it, but that does not make it true. |
Case in point ^^. If you consider a school a "safety," but then don't get in... it's not a safety. |
The arrogance of this post is something else! "Should have been a safety"? Your kid isn't owed admission to ANY school. DP |
Almost every single university now has this same goal - VT is just completely transparent about it. |
Exactly. |
DP. Absolutely agree. The posters on this thread have clearly stated that VT was a "safety" for their kid (or so they thought), so I don't have a whole lot of sympathy. But ED clearly signals that the school is your FIRST choice. It's a wonderful tool and I hope they reinstate it. Otherwise, they won't have any idea who truly wants to go there and who thinks they are entitled to an acceptance even though they have no intention of going. |
DP. VT states very clearly on their website that they do *not* yield protect. They can't accept everyone who applies, as much as some of you think they are owed an acceptance. Yield Protection Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection. https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html#:~:text=Virginia%20Tech%20does%20not,participate%20in%20yield%20protection. |
DP. So this was when VT still had ED. Did your kid apply ED? Obviously not if he was using it as a "safety." So what's the issue? Why do you feel he was entitled to an acceptance? He was competing against thousands of other highly qualified kids. He wasn't owed a space. |
+100 Precisely. Every selective school practices yield *management.* It's beyond naive to claim otherwise. |
+1 It's always the parents who think their kids were somehow more deserving than others who will claim "yield protection" to save face. |
They lie. just like the AOs of many schools now lie. Because they are no longer AOs but marketing types whose job it is to get submitted the greatest no. of applications so they can reject them thereby appearing more selective to USNWR, other ranking services and to alums. AOs are not your friend. they work for the school. period. Ask any TJ parent. |
I'm sorry your kid was rejected. It might be time for you to accept the fact that VT does not yield protect, as stated on their website. I hope you haven't passed this childishness on to your kid. |
One of the smartest things I heard when DD was going through the college admissions process was a guidance counselor who said โevery university is putting together an orchestra every single year. They need a variety of students. They cannot have just all tuba players.โ
This makes sense to me. College choosing my kid or not is not just stats. None of these high performing kids are owed an acceptance. There is no reason at all my DD got in some schools and not others with a 1500 SAT and. 4.3 Gpa. Except that itโs an orchestra. To everyone who says they were devastated not to get into VT but are quick to point out in most cases there were admitted at higher ranked schools, ask yourself why? Is that just ego? Consider the orchestra and it makes better sense. And be so grateful you have a smart hardworking kid who has several excellent choices. |
The thing at VA tech is that kids with significantly lower stars get in, and higher are waitlisted. You can claim โorchestraโ all you want but itโs obvious what it is. |