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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any school that rejected a kid. Yield protection is a coping mechanism used by many on here when kids get rejected. [/quote]

My kid got into Pomona, Hopkins, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Georgetown and Brown.

WL at Villanova and Tufts.

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That doesn’t scream yield protection. Just very different competitive schools [/quote]

I do not think that you understand the concept of yield protection as the above applicant results are clear evidence of yield protection. [/quote]

No. They are evidence that the PPs kid did not fit the class that Villanova and Tufts were trying to build that year.

The admissions process is opaque and different at every school, and that’s why stupid people like to make up explanations like “yield protection” for the outcome.[/quote]

Maybe you should take a breath and realize that “yield protection” is just another way of saying “opaque and apparently irrational.”[/quote]

If that is the way that you prefer to rationalize the OP's example, then that is fine. But, to deny the practice of yield protection in college admissions is ignoring the reality as shared by many current and former college admissions officers.

Of course, I am just guessing that OP's waitlisting at the two less rejective schools was due to yield protection as I--nor you--prestige in the room when the decision was rendered.

Try a Google search for "yield protection". You should get some interesting results & sources.[/quote]

In support of the above:

Wall Street Journal article from 2001 (yield protection is alive and well. A particularly strong practice in law school admissions as well as at US colleges & universities for undergraduate admissions.)

https://WSJ.com/articles/SB991083160294634500[/quote]

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