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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]virginia tech big time[/quote]

1. VT is not a safety.
2. VT does not yield-protect and says as much right on their website.

[b]"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."
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https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html#:~:text=Virginia%20Tech%20does%20not,participate%20in%20yield%20protection.[/quote]

OP here.
I’ve heard that if you have over a 1500 SAT to watch out with VT.  That’s really sad because it’s a top choice for my son. He submitted his app early (yesterday) plus we toured in Jan. Hopefully that signals to VT, that he is interested.[/quote]

Next someone will say that VT doesn't care about DI. VT does care about DI AND yield protects regardless of what a lot VT cheerleaders come on here to say. If the department that your son is interested in has any sessions at all, make sure you attend to show interest even if you have attended a similar event previously. Engage with the department staff.

A lot of schools yield protect even though their stated policy may be "we don't yield protect". What are you going to do? Sue them? Kinda hard to prove your case given the opacity of the process. Don't really blame them though. A school that doesn't yield protect would pretty much admit every student that meets their academic/other threshold/standard for admission and deal with the consequences of low yield and waitlist management. Tech chooses not to do that and that's fine. People just need to be aware of this and plan accordingly. [/quote]

If you are making the positive claim that a school yield protects, it's your job to prove it does, not our job to prove it doesn't. And as you say, it's going to be hard to prove your case. In fact, nobody has proven any school yield protects, it's just the all-purpose excuse for why kids who "should" have been admitted were denied.

Big and well-regarded state schools like VT and UVA have no need to yield protect. They have large pools of highly qualified applicants who are happy to attend due to the relatively low cost. If one kid out of 20,000+ who gets an offer turns it down, that won't even more the needle on VT yield rate. [/quote]

How, if at all, do you distinguish yield protection from considering demonstrated interest?[/quote]

Yield protection is rejecting someone before they can reject you.  Demonstrated interest is identifying someone who is interested in you.  Both are intended to increase yield, but the latter falls into the yield management category, along with ED and things like admitted student days.[/quote]

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