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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elite schools tend to be concerned about yield. If true, then one's college application essay may shed light on whether or not an RD applicant would likely attend.

To state that college application essays do not matter is incorrect with respect to the most selective schools as much can be garnered from an applicant's writing that may not be evident from the rest of the application.
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Again, you’re talking out your a$$. The schools that rejected this kid don’t have any concerns about yield.  They’re not going to reject an applicant out of fear they won’t come.  In fact they’re on the record as not taking “demonstrated interest” into account.

Why do posters just make stuff up?[/quote]

Yield is a concern and function of admissions. Expected yield, predicted yield, or just yield is calculated into highly selective schools admissions.

A concern about yield is not the same as demonstrated interest. [/quote]

None of the schools that didn’t accept that poster’s kid didn’t accept him because they were afraid he’d go elsewhere.  They routinely reject applicants with those numbers and virtually every applicant they accept have them.

Not even the poster is suggesting that it was yield protection.  That’s a contrived thing for parents to feel better about rejections:  “they didn’t accept my kid because he’s too good for the school and won’t come.”  How often do you think the schools that that poster listed - Harvard, MIT, Amherst, Williams as a legacy, etc - actually think that way?

They don’t.

Lower ranked top 25s, maybe.  But not schools like those.  [/quote]

Again, yield is not the same as demonstrated interest.

Yield is part of every highly selective school's admission process. 
because schools such as Stanford & Harvard enjoy 80% yields, they accept fewer applicant per available seat in each incoming class than does a school with a lower yield.

While I agree that OP's son most likely was not rejected out of concern for yield  or yield protection by Stanford, Harvard, Yale, & MIT, he probably was a yield concern for Williams College--especially because he was a legacy applicant who did not apply ED.[/quote]

Agree to disagree. I find it hard to believe that Williams College would reject a legacy applicant with those kind of stats and risk annoying an alum simply out of concern yield. [/quote]

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