Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:47     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a fun thread. I hope more people are able to chime in.


It just seems like an excuse for people to feel smug and superior about schools that seem to be doing "yield protection."

But of course we're not the admissions offices, and who knows – it's possible that many rejected applications at the lower-ranked schools had very little effort put into them, and the AOs could tell. They know what they're doing, and they can tell when a student is treating them as a safety they really have no interest in.


OP here: that’s not why I asked. And I don’t agree that AOs know what they are doing all the time. Plenty of (over) qualified kids are rejected and plenty of others who are ok but not as amazing are accepted. This isn’t my kid and has nothing to do with my family. But I have seen it. I’m Looking for stories of hope for a friend
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:45     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
DC class of 2022, WL at Purdue. accepted Cornell. CS major.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:39     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:Don't answer with stories or reasons why this happens. I'm only asking for something like this:

- I know a kid who was rejected to [above 50th ranked school], but also accepted to [top 30 school].


I was just reading this on reddit when MIT came out yesterday. Saw someone got rejected by UCI but got in MIT. That was random.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:38     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:Rejected at an ≈100th ranked school

Accepted at ≈30th & 40th in the national rankings plus top of one of the regional USNWR lists.

I don't believe it was yield protection like PP claims.


I think some alum/parents like to deny that yield protection happens, but I have definitely seen it.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:37     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a fun thread. I hope more people are able to chime in.


It just seems like an excuse for people to feel smug and superior about schools that seem to be doing "yield protection."

But of course we're not the admissions offices, and who knows – it's possible that many rejected applications at the lower-ranked schools had very little effort put into them, and the AOs could tell. They know what they're doing, and they can tell when a student is treating them as a safety they really have no interest in.


I'm the PP with the student who was rejected from Auburn and accepted to higher ranked schools. Auburn does not yield protect, so there's no smugness here. Maybe confusion.

I do agree that lack of effort might be a thing, but he wasn't interested in most of the other ranked schools, so that's not an explanation here.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:37     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Accepted to Top 30 public, apparently rejected from 100+ public.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:36     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Rejected NYU, in at Yale. Humanities major.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:34     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:This is a fun thread. I hope more people are able to chime in.


It just seems like an excuse for people to feel smug and superior about schools that seem to be doing "yield protection."

But of course we're not the admissions offices, and who knows – it's possible that many rejected applications at the lower-ranked schools had very little effort put into them, and the AOs could tell. They know what they're doing, and they can tell when a student is treating them as a safety they really have no interest in.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 15:25     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
This is a fun thread. I hope more people are able to chime in.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:28     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Anonymous wrote:My kid's friend was rejected from Univ. of North Dakota but in at WashU RD


Bizarre. Major?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:27     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
My kid's friend was rejected from Univ. of North Dakota but in at WashU RD
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:25     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Rejected at an ≈100th ranked school

Accepted at ≈30th & 40th in the national rankings plus top of one of the regional USNWR lists.

I don't believe it was yield protection like PP claims.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:22     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
My kid. My kid was rejected from UMD (okay so not above 50th ranked school) but was accepted to a top 15 school.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:09     Subject: Re:what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Ie OP is calling for all those who were yield protected!
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2024 14:06     Subject: what is the lowest ranked school you personally know a kid was rejected to but was also accepted to a top 30?
Don't answer with stories or reasons why this happens. I'm only asking for something like this:

- I know a kid who was rejected to [above 50th ranked school], but also accepted to [top 30 school].