<p>Also, do they have this syndrome at other schools? Thanks</p>
<p>tufts syndrome can be roughly translated to waitlisting the best applicants in its pool, knowing that these applicants will most likely be accepted into higher schools (ivy league, and others), and will most likely decide to attend the other higher schools rather than tufts. so by waitlisting these top applicants, tufts is protecting its yield and ensuring that it secures the very good applicants and gives those a bit more average a shot at a great education at tufts.</p>
<p>and im pretty sure other schools practice the same thing as tufts. some say wustl, maybe even johns hopkins. but many people have varying opinions on that.</p>
<p>Pretty much, the students at those schools insist there’s no such thing as yield protection at their school. Its just a focus on “demonstrated interest,” as if that is the most important factor beyond stats.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if Tufts actually still does this, but I think the current best example is probably WashU.</p>
<p>This “Tufts syndrome” is still at play in many schools. My daughter was accepted at Mount Holyoke and received a likely letter. However, she was waitlisted at her two safeties (Connecticut College and Kenyon College). It seems odd that she would be waitlisted at those schools unless they were trying to protect their yield…</p>
<p>^As far as I know, Kenyon doesn’t practice yield protection. They do, however, have to reject qualified girls to keep their male/female ratio balanced. Besides which, Kenyon is a pretty competitive school–hardly a safety for anyone.</p>
<p>OP, Tuft’s Syndrome is where schools just below the HYPS tier–Tufts, WashU–waitlist applicants who they don’t think will accept an offer of admission because, based on their stats, they are likely to be accepted to more competitive schools. The best way for applicants to combat this is by demonstrating interest.</p>
<p>Zebby, don’t think that was Tuft’s Syndrome. Holyoke has a different, limited applicant pool, the other 2 are more competitive when all factors are considered and it’s harder for girls to get into both than boys.</p>
<p>Only a few schools practice TS, most won’t dare risk a chance at the top students in their pool, and US News no longer factors yield into ranking which was really the big issue.</p>
<p>Yet there are schools that know they are safety schools for tipy top college applicants like WashU and Tufts, and they know who will make it into those schools and they know they will lose the cross admit battle.</p>
<p>Tuft’s Syndrome is something normal people call “sour grapes.”</p>
<p>D’s friend was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth; waitlisted at George Washington. That’s Tuft’s syndrome.</p>