Anonymous wrote:None of the schools listed here are safeties.

What are some examples of safeties that don’t yield-protect?

Anonymous wrote:What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

What is his UW and weighted GPA? SAT score? Class rigor? Any notable ECs or leadership? A high SAT score is just a small piece of the admissions package.

Anonymous wrote:
This couldn't be further from a ltruth. Yeild Protection was invented by Tufts. Yince Tufts Syndrome, also Emory rejects high stats in the ED rounds confirming that they don't yeild protect.

This. T25s don't yeild protect. For some reason people swear their kid can get into Emory no problem. Parents with kids that had 1400's think Emory is a Match.

https://blog.collegevine.com/what-is-yield-protection-tufts-syndrome
This site calls it Tufts Syndrome. NYU, Northeastern, Tulane. Every school outside of the T25 that has an acceptance rate below 20%. T25s don't yeild protect. They don't have to.

This couldn't be further from a ltruth. Yeild Protection was invented by Tufts. Yince Tufts Syndrome, also Emory rejects high stats in the ED rounds confirming that they don't yeild protect.

Anonymous wrote:Emory invented it. If they smell Ivy on you you're out.

This couldn't be further from a lie. Yeild Protection was invented by Tufts. Yence Tufts Syndrome, also Emory rejects high stats in the ED rounds confirming that they don't yeild protect.

None of the schools listed here are safeties.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

Caveat, none of those (American, NYU, BU) would be safeties for a high stats kid even if they didn't yield protect because their acceptance rates would still be too low. For safeties, look well over 50%.

Also known for yield protection:
Santa Clara University
George Washington University

This. If those are your kid’s idea of possible safeties, you need to send him back to rethink. Safeties have higher acceptance rates. A school is not a safety bc the applicant’s profile is well above the avg stats of admitted students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:virginia tech big time

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

"Yield Protection
Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection."

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

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.

We're in NY state (public) and according to our school's Naviance stats, Washington University of St. Louis is a big yield protect school.

It's not a super popular school for us, but in the past three years, Wash U accepted a handful of students in the 1330-1400 range with 3.91+ . . . but denied or WL quite a few more with 1500+ and 3.95+

When we dug in to the scattergrams of admit/WL/deny for our school, Wash U seemed like a genuine outlier re yield protection. Curious what others have seen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

This list is stupid. Every school "yield protects". Outside of big publics like the UC's, Ohio State, Michigan, etc., why would any private school offer admission to any applicant whom the school believes would not attend?

Rubbish. There are a huge number of privates that don’t yield protect because they’re not selective at all. These are just schools nobody on DCUM cares about.

I don’t even think any school yield protects, frankly. It’s made up by angry parents to explain why their great kid didn’t get in somewhere. It was because he was TOO GOOD FOR THEM, ya see! 🙄

Anonymous wrote:Elon

(I know a kid who got into Amherst and Penn but rejected from Elon!)

Well….exceot they probably guessed correctly that he wasn’t that interested. if the kid didnt apply to one of their honors or fellows programs it’s kind of a giveaway when they review his high stats app (which must be impressive tu get into Penn and Amherst!) that they were just a backup.

Anonymous wrote:What schools are known to yield protect? My son is a senior with a very strong SAT score. Worried he might get rejected or waitlisted for schools that are considered easy safeties.

Schools that with reputations of yield protect that I am aware of

American University
New York University
Boston University

Who else should be added?

This list is stupid. Every school "yield protects". Outside of big publics like the UC's, Ohio State, Michigan, etc., why would any private school offer admission to any applicant whom the school believes would not attend?

The same applicant rejected to BU might be accepted to NEU or Tufts. The same applicant rejected to NYU might be accepted to Cornell or Villanova. Rejection based on fit for the university does not imply the school is doing it to "yield protect"

Anonymous wrote:Emory invented it. If they smell Ivy on you you're out.

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Case is not really a safety but it is a nice school that can be easier to get into. They do look to see how interested you are in their school. If you don't look that interested they might not take you even if you have good stats.

Many schools are like that.