<p>OT, but related to post #19:</p>
<p>1) according to an article I read, this strategy was actually pioneered by Brown, in the late 60s.</p>
<p>2) The motivation may indeed be statistics related, but to me, one man’s "“yield-protection” leveraging strategy " is another man’s “accepting people who really want to be here”. who wants to populate a class with people who didn’t really want to be there, and may as a result be more likely to bring a negative vibe to campus life, and be more likely to transfer out?</p>