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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any school that rejected a kid. Yield protection is a coping mechanism used by many on here when kids get rejected. [/quote]

My kid got into Pomona, Hopkins, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Georgetown and Brown.

WL at Villanova and Tufts.

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My kid got into Tufts, Georgetown, and Pomono and WL and weightlisted at Dartmouth. Rejected from Brown.

So, it's very hard to know--depends on so many factors.[/quote]

Sorry, as a Tufts grad, I'll tell you that Tufts, Georgetown, and Pomona are less selective than either Dartmouth or Brown.  That's not yield protection. Evidence of yield protection would be if kid were accepted at Dartmouth and Brown and waitlisted at Tufts. [/quote]

But if that happened, Tufts is justified in not admitting or WL the kid.  They want kids who will attend.  If they think the kid will get into several higher ranked schools, why should they admit them?  The kid would rather attend the other schools.  Tufts (and any school) wants kids who want to attend.  End of game.

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As :higher ranked" schools than Tufts will have a 5% acceptance rate, how could they possibly know any given kid will get into even one of them let alone several? They might think he is qualified to get into a "higher ranked" school but so are thousands of other applicants to those schools. Basically, they would be guessing, which is a dumb reason to reject someone.[/quote]
NP. This exactly.

The uncertainty has always been there, but the ability to have any sort of decent prediction on chances spiraled out of control when test optional happened.[/quote]

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