Reply to Yield Protection

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Yield Protection"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the problem for high stat kids…

There are only reaches and safeties no matches.

You apply to a safety because you are concerned you won’t get into your reaches and you might not get into your first choice safety due to yield protection.

You may apply to reaches and get rejected from all.

Kind of stinks to work so hard and have this happen.[/quote]

Everyone has reaches, targets, safeties and likelies.  Apply to some in each category (and consider the definitions of those categories carefully---15% acceptance rate is a REACH for EVERYONE) Then you must show demonstrated interest.  You have to sell yourself to the university and make them think that yes, "you with your 1580, 4.785, 15+ APs and stellar ECs and leadership really do want to attend University of Z". Trust me, there will be high stats kids at those schools, someone gets in.  Your job is to convince the AO that you want to attend and why it's your top choice.

So yes, for a high stats kid, the targets might be ranked 30-70, the safeties/likelies might be 65-120+.   Much better to find that true safety/likely that your kid actually likes, than to be left wondering where you can apply to come April.

What stinks?  That your kid didn't get into a T30 School? Most kids dont'.  There are plenty of high stats kids who don't each year.  There simply are not enough spaces for all of them in that few schools
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics