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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools with a reputation for yield protection are not safeties, by definition.

The problem with confusing some sort of great likelihood with a true safety here is that misleads other families into some poor kid getting shut out.[/quote]

Show me a school with "yield protection" that has an acceptance rate above 50% (because a safety requires that).  Most YP schools are Reaches (Think Tufts) or places like CWRU (whose acceptance rates make it a Target at best )

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Schools like Tulane, American and GWU have lowered their acceptance rates below 50 through a combination of RD yield protection and extensive use of ED.[/quote]

No they have done it mostly thru ED---and that is what every school aims to do.  Their ultimate goal as a business is to have a full freshman class come fall (not much over and certainly not ANY less ) So ED is a good tool to get there.  So is ED2.  But they are no longer Safety schools, no matter how you look at it.

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