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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT does not yield protect. I know some.people want to use this as an excuse for their kids not getting in, but that does not make it true. VT will definitely reject/waitlist a "high stats" kid that does not take the time to appropriately answer their 4 short essay questions. The 20:57 PP on page 2, for example, does not take the time to proofread their posts. Perhaps their essays were also riddled with grammatical errors. 
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It didn't take long for the "VT does not yield protect" crowd to show up, did it? :lol:

You are wrong. Regardless of what their policy says, they do yield protect (or yield manage). Otherwise, you cannot explain the number of otherwise qualified kids that get waitlisted here but got into several other similar or higher ranked schools. Tech (along with NEU and UF) were safeties for my kid (a couple of years ago). He was waitlisted at Tech but got into the other two. I read all his essays and they were all of the same calibre. I may be biased about my kid's writing, but not so on a relative basis.  We also know multiple kids that year and since with similar outcomes - didn't get into Tech, but did at higher ranked, more selective, schools. Can't explain that with "oh, they wrote poor essays because they were thinking it was a safety". No one does that.[/quote]
Yield management is not the same thing as yield protection.

Yield management - 5000 highly qualified candidates apply but you have only 1000 slots. You make offers to ~1200 because you have data that shows ~20% will decline. You pick the 1200 by best guess as to good match based on the application.

Yield protection - 5000 highly qualified candidates apply, but you toss out the top 500 because you think they are overqualified and won’t accept even if offered admission. Then you select from the rest.

Every school has to manage yield. The more uncertainty in the process overall, the more they have to use the waitlist, because they can’t risk over enrollment.
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Potaytoh, Potaahtoe! :roll: [/quote]

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