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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When applying to colleges and universities, applying to at least 3 safeties is the most important. If a student accurately identifies & applies to 3 safeties, then the number of apps to other schools should not be a concern.

If up to me, I would limit students to 12 applications although 10 is also a reasonable limit.[/quote]

With high stats kids being yield protected from safeties, it doesn't seem like safeties exist anymore.[/quote]

Not all schools yield protect. If it does, it's not a safety.[/quote]

THIS.  Not sure why some here can't grasp that.[/quote]
NP. Agree, schools that yield protect are not safeties. Food for thought: are there schools which now yield protect, but didn't appear to yield protect [i]prior[/i] to test optional admissions?

Many colleges outsource yield management to enrollment management consultants for big bucks. Those consultants use algorithms. The algorithms in the past incorporated score data and test optional students were but a tiny slice of the big picture. That all changed, of course, and the portion of test optional applicants is now much bigger [i]and [/i]more likely to enroll than a score-submitter.

It seemed that, in the past, some high-acceptance-rate colleges might accept several high stats applicants and anticipate that only a small fraction of those would choose to attend. Now, there is a sense that the algorithms cannot handle that, and so instead the high stats applicants are simply denied. Something is not right with the algorithms if high stats students are being denied from colleges with 80%+ acceptance rates.[/quote]

Well first of all, the acceptance rate at VT is 56%.  Secondly, plenty of high-stats students ARE accepted.  You only hear about those who were deferred or rejected because they're unhappy and disappointed and had fully expected to get in (for some reason).  You certainly can't take something like anonoymous websites as gospel.  [/quote]

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