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[quote=Anonymous][quote] think the piece of OP’s post that people are ignoring is that kids with very high stats are not getting into schools that you would expect they would because of yield protection. Schools assume the stats are high, the kid will have other options, so the kid does not get into the school where they are at or above the 75% level. Meanwhile, the same kid is also rejected from all the “lottery” schools, so is left with few options. A different kid with stats at the 50% level for the school May actually be in a better position, because the school won’t yield protect that kid. With respect to that point, OP makes sense.

Are these students engaging with these schools at all? My kid engaged a number of times with regional recruiters; attended local meetings with recruiters; set up a tour that included meeting with the pertinent academic department. He did that for his top two choices. And it worked. [/quote]

Did this work even at schools who publicly state that they do not track interest?  My kid is looking at some SLACs that say demonstrated interest is not a factor- he gets emails, we are visiting campuses, but I thought that these schools don’t care about that (because they said they don’t).[/quote]

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