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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think test optional means that seats are going to academically unqualified students.  I do think that holistic admissions, including test optional, has changed how academically qualified is measured.  That in turn has reduced the ability of students and families to assess who is getting in and where, which has created the spiral of more and more applications and lower and lower acceptance rates at a subset of colleges.

There are also more high achieving students for a variety of reasons.

Importantly, it is not just URM and FGLI using test optional.  It has changed the calculus of how applicants put their applications together and we are in the middle of an upheaval.

I also think “yield protection” is a very small piece of rejections.  A waitlist position with merit aid might be the one place I believe this happens.[/quote]

If you get "yield protected", that means you did not do your job and show interest.  First: you don't get yield protected from a T30-40 school---you got rejected because they have more highly qualified students to choose from than they need. In the 40-80 rankings, if you get rejected and are at 75%+ for stats, then you did NOT show enough interest and that's on you.  It's your job to make them think it's your top 1-2 schools, either thru essays, interviews, emailing AO, visiting, communicating with your desired dept major, etc.  Ultimately the college wants to fill their freshman class so if their acceptance rate is 40-50%+ and you are at 75-90%+ and show no extra interest, they might rightly assume you wouldn't attend unless you get in nowhere else.  It's your job to convince them otherwise.  Not that hard to do.  
My 1490/3.99UW (10 APs) kid got accepted to 9 schools (all targets and safeties), ultimately rejected at their ED after deferral (T10/high reach/not likely), WL at a T25 (low reach, acceptance rate was 7% ) and spend first year overseas at another reach (not as highly ranked but one with almost 100K applicants, so they are a reach for everyone).  So ultimately, they only got "rejected" from 1 school and WL at another.  That's because we worked hard to show demonstrated interest at all the schools.   [/quote]

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