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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]

Tufts has sub 10% acceptance rates.  So yes, they are likely "guessing" about some students, that they will get into T25.  They are also most likely just admitting who they think will attend and WHO MAKES THE BEST FIT for Tufts.  Because they are rejecting 90%+ of the students as well.

Key issue is your kid having a 1580+/ 4.0UW/10AP+/Excellent ECs does not guarantee them a place at any T50 school.  When they are rejected it is NOT Yield protection.  It's that they reject the majority of students.  And yes, schools have ways to calculate who they think will NOT attend---and most complaining have kids who don't want to attend those schools unless they don't get into 5+ other schools, so the university is actually right.  It's on the kid to convince the school otherwise, thru essays, demonstrating interest, etc.

My 1500/3.98UW/8AP kid got rejected from 2 T25, WL at Tufts, in at NEU for Global Scholars and accepted everywhere else.  So in at all targets and safeties, WL at 1 Reach and first year abroad at another Reach.  Good stats IMO.  But that is because they worked hard to find great targets and safeties and Show interest at all of them.  One target we didnt even get to visit, yet my kid got accepted with Top merit (for a school people say does Yield protection).

Why? Who knows, but my kid did focus on making sure everything was top notch for the targets and safeties, and we carefully selected them so my kid would be happy attending any of them. 
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