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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overall yield increased at UVA after ED was initiated.  Of course it’s yield protection! [/quote]
You always post that. Yield protection is the practice of rejecting top applicants because there's an assumption they aren't going to enroll.

ED has 100% yield and it's a totally different thing. 
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So why did UVA’s yield rate rise remarkably after it initiated ED?  Are you actually believing that UVA started to offer ED for anything other but to increase its yield?  Technically it might not fit the exact definition of yield protection, but the end result is that it definitely increases yield. That’s the point. [/quote]

One more time. [b]The practice[/b] of rejecting top applicants is called yield protection.

ED affects overall yield rate, but it is not the practice of rejecting top applicants.

People explain this time and again to you, so now I think you're either obtuse or think you're funny.[/quote]

And for the last time, I mentioned that while ED might not be considered yield protection in its definition,  the end result is that yield rates go up.  UVA initiated ED because too many top students were rejecting their offer of admission. In my opinion, forcing a student to have to enroll in a school that he/she might otherwise reject is far worse than so called yield protection.  A 17-18 year old kid shouldn’t be forced to refuse an admittance to a better/more fitted school for themselves in any circumstance.  Schools can just cherry pick the very best candidates who apply ED and claim they’re not using it to protect/increase yield; thus not yield protection in definition.  I don’t feel that so called yield protection, which no university would ever admit to doing, is any worse/better than offering ED.  [/quote]

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