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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the people who cry “yield protection!” just don’t understand how competitive these schools have gotten or that their kid is one of many strong applicants. UVA doesn’t have to play the yield game. Top students, especially instate, choose to attend. [/quote]

This is simply not true.  A lot of them do decide to attend, sure.  But for many headed to Ivies, [b]UVA is just a safety school[/b] - and UVA knows this.  [/quote]

Hah! The parents may think that but they are in for a rude shock.  My UVA kid chose UVA over an Ivy and never looked back.  Also turned down Georgia Tech, aerospace, for UVA.  You may be surprised when your kid gets deferred or waitlisted for ivies.  I know of only one person who turned down UVa for an Ivy[/quote]

Um, ok.  I wasn't talking about my kid, or yours.  [b]Plenty of kids do indeed get into Ivies and wouldn't give UVA a second thought.[/b]  You seem oddly defensive that this is so.  [/quote]

UVA knows this = yield protection.

I do not understand why other PP thinks that everything is documented, in black and white. If one knows a large number of applicants who have gone this route, one is not going to list names on DCUM. LOL. [/quote]

I don't even follow your logic here. If someone chooses Ivy over UVA, that means they got into both. Yield protection means a school rejects their top applicants, assuming the student is using them as a safety. UVA doesn't do yield protection.

The weighted GPA thread from a few weeks ago showed that a lot of people don't realize that the GPAs are going up to 4.8 or 5.0 now, so the "4.0" people crying yield protection are talking about students who might be in the middle of the pack, not at the top.[/quote]

This. And no one has come up with any proof that UVA engages in yield protections those few that  do are parents of top stats kids who didn’t get in. UVA is actively trying to increase its number of URMs so something has to give. There are only 4,000 seats in a class. Last year [b]52 percent of the offers went to persons of color[/b]. The accepted class jumped to 14 percent black, a jump of over 8 percent. To achieve this you must dig down into the applicant class and seek out URMs and first generations. That all means fewer high stat white miss get offers [/quote]Where are you getting this information? I’m looking at 9,503 accepted and 955 were black. 3,900+ to white kids.

https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions[/quote]

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