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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I 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.[/quote]

I think the “yield protection” happens because the kids do not demonstrate interest to the schools and probably write supplemental essays that are wel because they aren’t really interested.  It’s just a safety.  I have a high stats kid that got into the more “safety” LACs because they picked all schools where they felt they could be happy and showed the same love to the safeties as the reaches.[/quote]

+10000

I am so tired of people griping about the &quot;highest stats&quot; kids at my kids school being &quot;yield protected&quot; because they were deferred at their &quot;safeties&quot;. Do you know what their safeties were? University of Michigan, Northeastern, UVA.  These schools are extremely difficult to get into (acceptance &lt;20 percent last year and probably much lower this year) and these kids treated the schools like safeties--did not visit, did not attend the sessions when the regional reps came to the school, etc.  Now they are pissed off because other kids--who are also high achievers but &quot;lower ranked&quot; got in.  However, these kids showed put in the time to learn about the school and demonstrated that they actually want to go there.

I hate a lot of the factors that colleges use in admissions (athletics, legacy in particular) and everyone should realize that there is a lot of randomness in who ultimately gets in. But the fact that colleges care that kids demonstrate interest? That is 100 percent appropriate.  [/quote]

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