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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Case Western is big on yield protection.   At my kid's HS they waitlist all the high stats kids.  I'd almost want to say that with a 35/36 ACT its better to go test optional.  [/quote]

Ditto at our high school. It was off-putting to my high stats kid. If Case had offered huge merit, my kid might have gone there, but my kid just rejected the wait list, so we'll never know. [/quote]
Same, just a huge turnoff. Mine got an offer of merit from the waitlist but then rejected the waitlist on their first silly weekly check-in.    I'd be wary of sending my kid to a place that is so into rankings that they across the board accept lower stats kids.  Before anyone makes an accusation of sour grapes, someone posted data on this from a HS in California at some point.  [/quote]

They don't "across the board accept lower stats kids".  They do what all schools do---they attempt to determine who will actually attend if given an offer of admission.  Fact is many kids with a 35/36 ACT and 1550+ SAT are also applying to T20 schools---so if Case thinks they will get into one of those, then they might not offer a spot unless you have shown huge demonstrated interest.  It's what all school in the 25-50 range do. Their goal is to fill their class and calculate yield, not offer spots to kids who want to go elsewhere and will likely get in elsewhere.  [/quote]
That's all rather shady, yes?   Other than visiting (privilege) you are at their mercy on how they track DI.   Given the demand for T20 schools it's bold to assume these kids are getting in there either.  [/quote]

My kid did their "visit" online and attended a few other "online sessions to demonstrate interest", got accepted with top merit award.

Schools are free to manage their yield the way they see best fit.  Fact is, visit Case and at least 50% of those kids will freely admit case was not their first choice---first choice is most often a T25/elite school but they either didn't get in or didn't get enough merit.  So case knows that many who apply have the scores/stats for the elite schools and they have to guess who will attend and who won't.  It's not unique to case, all schools except the T10-20 do exactly this.  
Also, remember colleges are not aiming to build a class with the top 1600 SAT test takers or the Top 1600 GPAs, it's a holistic look at the entire package and with only a ~35% acceptance rate, there are still going to be a lot of people rejected, including those with high test scores.  Test scores are NOT the be all end all.  Don't want rejection, apply to Uof Arizona or ASU where acceptance rates are over 90%.  Otherwise the fact is Case still rejects more kids than they accept. [/quote]

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