<p>Re #18: Well, I hope you are succeeding at least on that measure because all this wankfest is doing is freaking out the youth and annoying the elderly. (I’m in the latter category, natch.)</p>
<p>Both of y’all need to cut it out before I report you to the Admissions Problems Tumblr for a good mocking. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance,
SOG</p>
<p>Thanks! 40% seems interestingly low considering Duke’s prestige, unless 40% is actually above average among top schools.</p>
<p>@#21: Who died and made you police of the intertubes?</p>
<p>@Juvenis: yes it is. I suspect Duke is losing a lot of cross-admits to Ivies.</p>
<p>Who let you slip through sixteen years of education without learning manners that would befit a preschooler? </p>
<p>But, hey, it’s your sandbox, and the signal to noise ratio here isn’t promising enough for me to stick around. Good night.</p>
<p>Haha, you seemed to have done just as well so I’ve got nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>So because of yield, would they be inclined to admit an applicant with slightly lower stats over someone with slightly higher stats if it looks like the lower qualified person would definitely go there?</p>
<p>I’m not an authority on this, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Duke being accused of having Tufts Syndrome (egregious yield protection). Not saying it won’t be a factor but I don’t think anyone has ever articulated that they place much emphasis on this in the RD round. Duke certainly likes commitment but that’s mostly reflected in ED applicants and it likes commitment when it comes to waitlist movement but otherwise, RD is somewhat of a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Edit: still it never hurts to put it out there that Duke is a top choice that you’d choose over other schools.</p>
<p>Edit2: I’d like to add that obviously as Duke is my alma mater I’m somewhat biased in that I’d like to believe that it has enough confidence in itself to not be too worried or overly fixated on yield. But as Tennisforall pointed out above, it is not out of the question for likelihood of matriculation to be an integral part of the admissions decision. It’s just never really mentioned at all in interviews and articles about the admissions process in the past.</p>
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<p>Duke is pretty highly ranked in student preference according to this statistical analysis on Parchment based on thousands of actual enrollment decisions. I’m sure the non-HYP Ivies cross admit with HYP a lot but I have a feeling that Duke cross admits more with MIT and Stanford than the non-HYP Ivies. I have no evidence to back this up.</p>
<p>Duke may also lose a non-trivial number of admits to UNC in-state since its a lot cheaper.</p>
<p>A lot of Duke’s peers practice a certain degree of yield protection. Duke does not (to the best of my knowledge).
Consequently, it gets massacred in cross admit battles with HYPSM.
But it is far better to have a low batting average in the major league than a higher one in the minors, don’t you think? </p>
<p>Furthermore, no university in the country (with the exception of all mighty Stanford) has a cheaper instate rival that is as highly regarded as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>I don’t know what is the exact definition of yield protection, I’m sure there are degrees of it. I was fortunate to get feedback from an admissions officer from another top 10 school that was my second choice, albeit a distant second to Duke. I put a lot of effort into the essay and really thought I showed a lot of passion for the school. One of the first comments back is our school isn’t your first choice is it.</p>
<p>I think Duke admissions has a very trained eye for finding the Duke passionate applicants. I don’t think that would be considered yield protection but does effect yield. That is why I think some of the real passionate posters on this board have a better chance then they are giving themselves.</p>
<p>I suppose if you defined it broadly, then taking probability of matriculation into account at all in the admissions decision could be considered yield protection. But I’ve always thought of it as admitting an applicant that you would not have admitted over someone you would have simply because the one you admitted had a higher chance of matriculating. To put it another way, rejecting someone you would have admitted because you think he/she is not going to come.</p>