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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools I guess try, but it still is hard.  Clemson, JMU, Case Western, etc try to yield protect (maybe) yet their yields are all less than 20%…so maybe they don’t?[/quote]

Case definately "yield protects". But it's challenging.  Visit case, talk to students there.  It's a running joke that it's everyone's 2nd/3rd/4th choice--it's not most kids top choice.  75-80% of the students (so it seems) top choices were in the T25/30==those kids would be attending one of those had they gotten admission.  That means they had the resume to get in, but didn't win the lottery.  
Case knows that--they are a "excellent backup in a location many are not thrilled about" for many high stats students.  They know they have a yield protection issue.  So yes, if they think your kid is not that interested and is using them as a backup, they will defer or WL.  I don't view yield protection as a bad thing---it's up to your kid to convince a top school that your kid really wants to attend. Ultimately, the school wants to have X students enroll in the fall (not X-500 or X+500 but X or as close to it as possible, maybe go over a bit).  They pull the you did EA, if you switch to ED2 here is what your merit/FA package would look like.  Are you willing to switch?  It's them saying "we want you, but only if you will commit to attend, otherwise we think you might get in elsewhere and go there"  [/quote]

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