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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there’s something else that people are forgetting- so many of the students that think they are being “yield protected” have academic and demographic profiles that are way over-represented in the applicant pool, ie UMC, STEM, east coast/west coast, affluent neighborhoods, etc. Universities are simply inundated with these types of students so it is disproportionately hard for these kids to get everywhere including into the 30% schools.  The need for schools to fill all their departments and create diverse student bodies creates a ton of randomness that may feel like yield protection but really is just reflecting institutional needs.[/quote]

you are not randomly getting princeton while being rejected at villanova.[/quote]

But getting into Princeton and WL at Tufts? In at Northwestern and rejected at Emory? People constantly cry “yield protection” in these cases when they are very likely the result of the randomness of which the PP speaks.[/quote]

Because both Tufts and Emory are still REACHES for almost everyone--with sub 20% acceptance rates. 
So someone who is a good fit for Princeton might not be for Tufts.  Or their essays were not as strong at tufts
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Exactly- I’m the PP and this is the point I was making. It is entirely possible that someone can get into Princeton and not Tufts for reasons that have nothing to do with yield protection. Could be the essays, could be the number of kids from the applicant’s school that applied, could be how the extra curricular activities stood out (or didn’t stand out) among the applicant pool in the very quick review process.[/quote]

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