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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Nobody has proven that yield protection occurs anywhere.[/quote]

And so what if it does?  in 99% of the cases, the student claiming "yield protection" by school X doesn't really want to attend school X.  They have several other "better schools" that they are hoping to get into.  Well the goal of the school is to actually fill their class with Z students (or slightly over ) for freshman year.  That means School X wants/needs students who actually want to attend.  So it's up to your kid to convince the school you actually want to attend.

For example:

My 1520, female, engineering major, 3.98UW, 8 AP, good EC with one major EC they have dedicated themselves since late ES.  They applied to CWRU in time for EA, mainly because they researched and realized it was a good school, and didn't have any extra essays.  Had not visited (from west coast and it wasn't on our radar for summer tours).  Yet once my kid decided to apply, they attended online sessions, emailed admissions and the specific engineering dept they were interested in, so showed as much interest as possible.  
My DD got admitted EA with the top general merit award (it was $42K/year).  
So yes they were not 1600 and 15 APs, but still very high stats (1520 normally makes that cut, especially when it was still TO).  
Yet there are people with similar stats on College confidential that year claiming their kid was "yield protected" with very similar stats.   Yes, schools use ED1 and ED2 to attempt to ensure attendance.  So does every single school that has a form of ED.  That's the goal.

However unless the acceptance rate is 80%+ and your high stats kid was rejected, they likely were not yield protected.  They just were not the perfect person for that school and with slightly over 70% rejected at CWRU, there are still plenty of highly qualified kids who will be rejected. Remember the goal of AO when reading your application is to try and determine who will actually attend (yes that is the purpose of college admission) and who will fit in the best at the school and make for a well rounded freshman class. But don't scream "yield protection" just because you got rejected.  
Because, just like your target schools are not your first choices (sometimes they might not even be in your top 5-8 choices), schools also get to choose their top students, and GPA/SAT is not the only way to do that

Finally---CWRU is filled with "T25 rejects" as they say--the students joke about it.  Read the student newspaper and there is an article yearly.

My kid didn't attend there---instead are at a similar school, also around 25-30% acceptance rate, a school where it seems literally everyone had a list of 3-5+ "higher schools" they also wanted to attend and most were WL in some form at one or more (or at least of my DD 15+ friends, every single one was WL at a T25 school, several at multiple and several were also offered spring or fall sophomore year admissions).   [/quote]

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