Yield protect

[Anonymous]

Please explain what this means. Tia!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please explain what this means. Tia!

This refers to a college/university admissions office engaging in practices designed to give them the highest reportable yield (permitting the lowest possible acceptance rate), thereby pumping up th school’s competition stats.

It’s yield protection when a college refuses to admit super-highly-ranked applicants who are using that college as a safety. It’s yield protection when a college affords substantive admissions preferences to those indicating first/choice. Both are common practices. In a sense, all EarlyA/EarlyD programs are a form of yield protection, in part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please explain what this means. Tia!

Case western reserve EA:

SAT: 1570, GPA: 4.6 deferred

SAT: 1350, GPA: 4.1 accepted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please explain what this means. Tia!

This refers to a college/university admissions office engaging in practices designed to give them the highest reportable yield (permitting the lowest possible acceptance rate), thereby pumping up th school’s competition stats.

It’s yield protection when a college refuses to admit super-highly-ranked applicants who are using that college as a safety. It’s yield protection when a college affords substantive admissions preferences to those indicating first/choice. Both are common practices. In a sense, all EarlyA/EarlyD programs are a form of yield protection, in part.

Also it is yield protection when a college gives preference to legacy applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please explain what this means. Tia!

This refers to a college/university admissions office engaging in practices designed to give them the highest reportable yield (permitting the lowest possible acceptance rate), thereby pumping up th school’s competition stats.

It’s yield protection when a college refuses to admit super-highly-ranked applicants who are using that college as a safety. It’s yield protection when a college affords substantive admissions preferences to those indicating first/choice. Both are common practices. In a sense, all EarlyA/EarlyD programs are a form of yield protection, in part.

Also it is yield protection when a college gives preference to legacy applicants.

I don't think that is why they do that. It may help on the yield some, but that is an ancillary result.

[Anonymous]

Ok, got it! Thx

[Anonymous]

Popularly referred to as Tuft's syndrome

[Anonymous]

Maybe 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please explain what this means. Tia!

Case western reserve EA:

SAT: 1570, GPA: 4.6 deferred

SAT: 1350, GPA: 4.1 accepted

I saw this on College Confidential too. But the lower stats kids were applying to the nursing school, not the engineering where you must have higher stats.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

What happens to high or relatively high stats kids who don’t qualify for need-based aid? I was one of those kids years ago and so were many of my classmates. There were a few in-state public schools that were known for generous merit aid (non-flagships, although our state flagship was pretty generous too). Does that just not exist anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens to high or relatively high stats kids who don’t qualify for need-based aid? I was one of those kids years ago and so were many of my classmates. There were a few in-state public schools that were known for generous merit aid (non-flagships, although our state flagship was pretty generous too). Does that just not exist anymore?

It exists, but may take a bit of hunting, as it varies widely. There's automatic merit and then there's competitive merit for which the student may not know the status or amount of the award until spring.

There are some public colleges that offer generous auto merit to high-stats out-of-state students as well, e.g. Bama.

[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

But the time per question is faster, lots of kids do poorly because of the time constraint.