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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no convincing proof that any school does yield protection but DCUM parents cling to this “explanation” for their kid getting rejected.[/quote]

Well, if you look in SCOIR scattergrams for some colleges (ie U Miami) where the top quadrant kids are all deferred/waitlisted and those with lower stats are accepted, it feels a lot like yield protection.[/quote]

Scattergrams based on two very limited criteria (GPA and SAT/ACT) are not showing you the whole picture of the applicant and you can't draw conclusions about "yield protection" from them. You don't know what those "lower stats" kids had that the "higher stats" kids didn't have that allowed the former to get accepted - URM, athlete, legacy. musician, could be a lot of things the college wanted that wasn't just "raw stats" based.

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Nope--for our HS (small enough to now know who each point represents), U Miami rejected the kids now at top 25's and accepted wealthy kids with much lower stats (not athletes, legacy, musicians, but very wealthy)--you can see this trend year over year.  The trouble with applying to yield protection schools from expensive private schools is that they know you could afford to ED if it was truly your top choice. Especially for the ED2 round. Not sure why you are arguing a concept college counselors will agree upon--yield protection is definitely a thing--especially demonstrated by the schools taking a large percentage of kids via ED (Tulane is notorious for this).[/quote]

It is. The other thing is, the counselors at our school know some AOs very well.  They know which of their kids are using certain schools as safeties. They have met with the kids and families a bunch of times prior to applying and throughout the process.  Sally may already know she's going to Georgetown first, then BC and a then Villanova in that order.  Jimmy is ND or bust, Villanova and then, ,, you get the point. They are going to work to get each kid into the school of their choice and best fit. It's a 2-way street.  They know each year relative numbers of admits at these schools and they know which kids are legacy, athletes and likely to get in, etc.  So, yes, I can see why a kid might be WL somewhere because they know he/she isn't likely to yield.[/quote]
This also sounds super fair and maybe the subject of a further Varsity Blues type documentary.

The real issue with yield protection is that you have the high stats kids not winning the lottery at the “elite” schools and then also getting locked out of next tier down.  
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