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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the hell is with the Michigan haters on this forum? It's so random and weird.

Every school yield protects, by the way.

Also, kids don't make decisions solely based on the selectivity of the schools they get into. [/quote]

Not every school yield protects. Michigan does it. UVA doesn't.[/quote]

T[b]hat's ludicrous - what data do you have to support this? Your one or two anecdotes from personal experience don't count as hard science[/quote][/b]

Read CollegeConfidential.com.  Look at the caliber of students rejected.  Michigan does yield protect.  Look also at the number of applications and the size of the admissions office.  UVA is now receiving over 40K applications a year and has a small admissions office.  Smaller offices can't be bothered spending the time checking against visitation lists or trying to guesstimate who will show up and who won't.  Also UVA has indicated that it doesn't take personal visits into consideration . . . it just can't.  So it admits those with the best stats.  On the other hand, my tiny LAC does care about yield because it's trying to climb the rankings charts so it does yield protect.  Some choices are easy.  If a URM student applies who has unbelievable stats, then my LAC knows he or she is using them as a safety so they won't admit them.[/quote]

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