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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of people out here defending yield protection practices is crazy.

And yes it is a real thing.  Any college counselor knows this.

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So don’t apply to schools that yield protect or make it very clear you are actually interested.

Colleges have no obligation to take the highest stats kids.  They are generally very open about their holistic processes.  They have every right to accept or reject folks for any reason as long as it is not an illegal one.  As far as I know, “high stats” kids are not a protected class, just one that feels entitled.[/quote]

No one has said yield protection is illegal. Just shameful. (You know it’s shameful because of how hard people work to deny that it happens.)[/quote]

It's not shameful for a college to reject someone they don't think will attend. [/quote]

Exactly!  I'm not seeing the problem here.  If you asked these people whether their kid would have gone to X school, if accepted - the answer will invariably be NO.  They're just using it as a backup and the schools see right through that.[/quote]

The applications are not free. If the kid has gone thru the process and paid the fee then it means they may attend it even if the likelihood is small. If good colleges reject because of the competition and average colleges reject because of yield protection then what should the students do?[/quote]
This. The likelihood is the issue - expensive enrollment management consultants for the would-be safety (yes, I'm taking a swipe at them here) can't figure out the likelihood that the high stats student will/won't attend because selective college admissions is so rife with uncertainty. If they could overcome that uncertainty and calculate that likelihood, they would know how many high stats students would be expected to end up enrolling at the safety once accepted, and the would-be safety could just accept them. Instead, it's off to the WL.[/quote]

You’re not going to get yield protected from a safety ( >70% admit rate) ffs. They don’t care about their yield.

Or are you one of these people who says about a 30% admit rate school - “that’s a safety for MY KID”?[/quote]

Instead of rejecting or asking students to apply to ED2 etc. why can’t they just put the students in waitlist and let them know that if they commit, they would take them off the waitlist. They can still maintain their yield that way. [/quote]

Well that is what "will you switch to ED2" is.  They give you your merit/FA package and ask, "are you ready to commit?"  If you say no, then they might put you on the WL, they might just reject you.

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