<p>my friend got rejected from lehigh even though he has really good rank(top5%) really good SATs(M/V 1450+) and okay activities.</p>
<p>he did everything correctly, why do you think he got rejected</p>
<p>no criminal record
white/catholic//high middle class</p>
<p>Tufts Syndrome? Or boring essays. Or college randomness.</p>
<p>wat is tufts syndrome</p>
<p>tufts syndrome is yield protection…basically schools want their yield (number of students that accept their offers of admission) to be high, and therefore some schools waitlist/reject students that they think will get into a better school</p>
<p>Tufts Syndrome - Colleges taking offense to being seen as safety schools, thus rejecting overqualified applicants. My friend got into Lehigh, and he indicated that if you didn’t take a tour/show demonstrated interest, they would not necessarily take you over less qualified applicants.</p>
<p>^^don’t forget about the part about lower acceptance (and high yield as others have said), this is all done in order to boost selectivity and USNWR rank.</p>
<p>Ucla!!! T^t</p>
<p>zoolander: If he visited, Lehigh might have wanted to round out their class (demographically)…</p>
<p>If he didn’t visit, and lives within 4 hours of Lehigh, you have your answer…</p>
<p>My guess would be the latter reason…</p>
<p>Lehigh last year had a 32% admissions rate. It is not a “sure thing” school for anyone, regardless of their statistics. You need to get closer to a 50% acceptance rate for a “sure thing.”</p>
<p>Lehigh may be a match, but it is not a safety for anyone.</p>
<p>UCLA for damn sure</p>
<p>at our school we have something similar to the tufts syndrome but we call it the “WashU syndrome”</p>
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<p>U.S. News has not included yield in its college rankings for several years, precisely because considering yield provides a perverse incentive to colleges to reject highly qualified applicants who may have other choice. But all the same, a college in the middle range of selectivity and desirability has to figure out how to offer admission to the applicants who are really the most interested in enrolling.</p>
<p>Could be lukewarm letters of recommendation, or getting C’s on his report card, or not having high grades in the subjects close to his intended major, or dullness and bad grammar in his essays, or, ultimately, just not enough room for the college to admit every 1450 SAT middle class white kid.</p>
<p>There’s no way to know, and no reason to pursue the answer. Everyone is going to get rejections, and they are going to hurt. If you get into 50% of your schools, you have done well. </p>
<p>Check some of the Naviance diagrams for top schools and you’ll see that rejections are just a fact of life.</p>
<p>This whole concept blows my mind because I suspect that my daughter won’t reach at all.</p>
<p>Hi tokenadult…</p>
<p>Yield is still important in the USNews rankings because of its impact on the admissions rate. The higher the yield, the lower the number the school will need to admit, and the lower the resulting admissions rate.</p>
<p>but danas, that itself is balanced out by the fact that admitting higher socring applicants will boost 1) 75th percentile SAT/ACT scores and 2) % in top 10% of their class</p>
<p>Yes, of course, these are important.
My point was that yield still has an impact in the USNews rankings, in spite of being officially “dropped” from the calculus.</p>
<p>okay, true</p>
<p>maybe he should call and ask…</p>
<p>Roger Williams. Very small, very beautiful college in Rhode Island. D visits, likes it very much, her stats are way high for this place, but she likes it. We think merit money for sure so we like it too. But she is a great student, rank 10/383. She gets invite to honors program and along with a short essay on why she likes RW, please include a list of all other colleges you have applied to. A couple weeks later, rejected. Completely tufted.</p>