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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posters keep saying 'demonstrate interest' as if most ambitious students don't know/ don't do that. These kids are clicking on emails daily and keeping zoom sessions running while they watch Game of Thrones.

This is the hoop jumping generation. Yield protectors may be able to eliminate a small minority of applicants with this hurdle, but I can't imagine it's that useful to them.  The mid-tier schools make educated guesses about which students will be accepted at higher tier schools, and reject or WL them.

Since just about every private mid-tier school yield protects, it seems, the only way to avoid them is make sure to apply to at least one large public?[/quote]

Yup!  A good example is case western.  The campus is filled with kids who all applied to several "higher ranked schools" and would be attending those schools had they been admitted.  Some years, Case pulls a very high amount from their Wait List.  Other years it's 0.  They have a yield calculation problem---because they are at that spot where--"it's a great school, but there are many other top schools most would rather attend, and many don't want to end up in Cleveland".  So they know those who apply who are above the 75% for case stats are 95%+ also applying to several T25-30 schools.  They know many will get accepted at one or more of those schools and many will choose that school over case.  So for them, it's a hard time to calculate who will actually attend.  They do NOT want to have to fill 50% of the freshman class from the waitlist (yet it happens some years).  That is an issue several schools in the 35-50 range have.  [/quote]

If Case Western is so worried about its yield then maybe it should try to get into T25-30. It can also clearly tell students that if they have a GPA of 3.8+ and SAT score above 1500 etc. then they don’t need to bother applying. It can also put students into waitlist instead of rejecting and then tell them that if they commit, they will remove them from the waitlist.

Not doubt any of those and having students pay the application fee to only reject them thinking they won’t attend is idiotic at best.  [/quote]

My 3.98UW/1520/8AP kid with good ECs got admitted (without having visited---just did everything online) and got the top Merit package 2 years back (of 42K/year).  They were admitted EA, none of the "switch to ED2 and we will admit you".  You just have to demonstrate why it's a top choice for you.  
But case knows that 50%+ of their class wanted to attend a higher ranked school and more likely, one not based in Cleveland.  But they also know most will not get into those 40-50K spots, so they do admit plenty of top students.

What they need to do is add a "WHY Case?" supplement, to help figure out who wants to attend.

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