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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the problem...people are claiming that my 1600 SAT kid that never visited College X, didn't show any particular knowledge or interest in College X in their application, etc. was rejected due to "Yield Protection".

That is not yield protection...that is a smart college knowing you have no interest.

Yield protection would be the 1600 SAT kid visiting the college, talking to the regional AO, showing lots of interest...but then say LSU just can't fathom you attending and [b]rejects you because they feel like if Top 10 comes calling, that is where you will go[/b].[/quote]

What if the school doesn't care about Demonstrated Interest? And do you honestly think a kid that's already applied for 10+ schools and gotten into several (but may not have visited all of them) suddenly didn't write a good essay for this particular school?

BTW, the bolded part of your sentence is EXACTLY what Yield Protection is!  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

No s**t...that is why I called it yield protection.

There are plenty of instances where kids completely phone in the "Why university X question".  They don't mention anything unique to the school, or a program, etc.

I mean, [b]it is entirely possible that when a kid applies to 15 schools, they are only really interested in 8 of them, and those applications are much better than the remaining 7.[/b][/quote]

So you think that's a simpler explanation than, say, the school protecting yield? A lot of kids must be cahoots and coordinated submission of poor essays to Virginia Tech or any of the YP schools in that case..  :roll: [/quote]

Huh?  What is a YP school?

Yes, there are a lot of people that really want to attend GA Tech or MIT or Michigan or other higher-ranked STEM schools that have the stats for those higher-ranked schools, that submit a worse application to VT.[/quote]

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