If you are shooting at the top 30 you need to pick a solid safety and treat that schools as if it is your favorite. Multiple visits, interviews, conversations with admissions teams. Otherwise they will think you are making them a safety and they will reject you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is good.
Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

(Note, if the acceptance rate is less than 75%, it’s not a safety, no matter what your stats are)

How many colleges have a greater than 75% acceptance rate?

None you would want to attend with a 1400+ SAT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is good.
Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

(Note, if the acceptance rate is less than 75%, it’s not a safety, no matter what your stats are)

How many colleges have a greater than 75% acceptance rate?

Plenty. Definitely enough for everyone to choose one or two.

Anonymous wrote:This is good.
Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

(Note, if the acceptance rate is less than 75%, it’s not a safety, no matter what your stats are)

How many colleges have a greater than 75% acceptance rate?

Anonymous wrote:My friends son just go stuck in waitlist hell, 1530 sat. 11 waitlists and 1 rejection. The rejection was to a safety school for him. Lucky he applied to 2 top schools in England, got in both within a week of applying. Yield protection is getting ridiculous.

11 waitlists! Seems like the safety wasn’t a safety.

My friends son just go stuck in waitlist hell, 1530 sat. 11 waitlists and 1 rejection. The rejection was to a safety school for him. Lucky he applied to 2 top schools in England, got in both within a week of applying. Yield protection is getting ridiculous.

This is good. Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

This, exactly.

Will be interesting to see what happens with JMU next year. They are going to accept the common app for the first time so will likely get a significant bump in applications.

This is good.
Students need to stop applying to 20+ schools. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and energy. Find a couple true safeties you actually would be happy at, visit them, and apply to them. Stop tossing out random apps to see who bites.

(Note, if the acceptance rate is less than 75%, it’s not a safety, no matter what your stats are)

Yield protection is a very real thing. The way to combat it is EDI and EDII. The schools want their guaranteed admits $$$. DD didn’t do it as she was holding out for her top choice which only has RD, and thank goodness it worked out because she was yield protected by her matches and safeties. She’d be sitting in waitlist city right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection is a MYTH at Virginia Tech. It’s just a matter of math. They had over 42,000 apps for a class of 6,800.

They don’t care enough to game whether or not your kid would attend or not. Even with the addition of the short answer questions, they still do not really do holistic admissions.

Lmao no it’s obvious they did this year, if you met the kids from my school who got in and the ones that got waitlisted, you would change your mind. Trust me, they yield protected hard.

This is very true. I know two smart high score kids who got in but then there was a layer of really solid kids who had it as a first choice that got waitskisted and then a bunch lower than that that got in. Very weird. I know kids who got in to UVA and got waitlisted at Tech.

Anonymous wrote:Yield protection is a MYTH at Virginia Tech. It’s just a matter of math. They had over 42,000 apps for a class of 6,800.

They don’t care enough to game whether or not your kid would attend or not. Even with the addition of the short answer questions, they still do not really do holistic admissions.

Lmao no it’s obvious they did this year, if you met the kids from my school who got in and the ones that got waitlisted, you would change your mind. Trust me, they yield protected hard.

Yield protection is a MYTH at Virginia Tech. It’s just a matter of math. They had over 42,000 apps for a class of 6,800.

They don’t care enough to game whether or not your kid would attend or not. Even with the addition of the short answer questions, they still do not really do holistic admissions.

Out of the Virginia publics, it seems like VT was the only school that yield protected this year.

Admission rates this year & other threads about kids getting practically shut out are making it seem like many schools that tend to be lower-tier/safeties now seem to be rejecting lots of great candidates because they want to protect their yield. I get that kids now need to demonstrate a lot of interest and need to take the time do interviews snd supplemental essays but still... seems like this is a tough trend that will make this whole process even crazier.