<p>Is it nothing more than rampant yield protection?</p>
<p>We’ve been here before, OP. If by yield protection, you mean, denying students who have merit AND demonstrate fit because they would most likely go elsewhere, we have no firm, comprehensive evidence for this - only meaningless anecdotes.</p>
<p>If by yield protection you mean seeking to determine “fit” and making sure students want UChicago, then who knows? </p>
<p>As I’ve said before, all schools engage in some form of “yield protection,” just based on how you define the term.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people accuse certain schools of yield protection. Does yield protection really help? US News doesn’t take yield into consideration at all in their ranking. Indirectly, a higher yield will lead to a lower acceptance rate, but that still only makes up a tiny portion of the whole ranking (I believe 1-2%).</p>
<p>^ you don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Ugh. I know that it’s not particularly productive to argue against the most obvious ■■■■■ on this forum, but…</p>
<p>People accuse colleges of trying to “game” the system by using yield protection. What system, exactly, are colleges gaming? I assume US News, but that publication no longer uses yield directly in their calculations, specifically to prevent this sort of manipulation. I do not see why any college would do such a thing for an insignificant gain. Especially when you consider that all of the evidence of this alleged yield protection is purely anecdotal.</p>
<p>CollegeChica:</p>
<p>Comprehensive evidence please? The yield number alone is woefully insufficient.</p>
<p>Wow, if 47% yield somehow offers definitive proof of “rampant yield protection,” what must we say about Harvard’s 81% yield rate?</p>
<p>Collegechica-Here I find you once again. What’s your deal with Chicago??? Just because the yield increases doesn’t mean that yield protection is rampant. Are you jealous? Many other schools wish their yields went up like that. But they don’t criticize. Instead, they are impressed and respectfully commend the school.</p>
<p>collegechica7 is a Cornell poster with a huge inferiority complex. She’s just ****ed her school isn’t high on the US News ranking (which she fawns over). And the fact that the school is behind the other ivies, chicago, and other top privates in terms of selectivity and rank. it probably irks her that it’s not even uttered in the same breadth as Stanford, where as Chicago is due to its growing selectivity and historical success of Nobel Prizes and Rhodes Scholars.</p>