Does yield protection apply to international students?

[corvuscardinalis]

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Asking out of curiosity. Would an applicant with a strong profile, who would otherwise get yield-protected at an MD school due to a combination of stats and profile/narrative, be considered if they were international? Assume that they meet the eligibility requirements and went to a US undergrad.

The usual justification for yield protection assumes that the hypothetical strong applicant would have plenty of choices elsewhere and is unlikely to attend if admitted. Is this still the case for a candidate who presumably already has a lower likelihood of admission due to citizenship?

 

[LizzyM]

If a school is going to yield protect, it is likely that they'll do it across the board. If the applicant is a superstar who looks like a prime candidate for a top 10 med school, the high-cost, low prestige schools are likely to figure that they don't stand a chance of landing such a candidate and they should focus their limited resources (interviewer slots) on people who are more likely to choose to matriculate if made an offer. That said, yield protection is something of an art and if the powers that be say, "this applicant is likely to have a lot of offers but we have done well in the past attracting students from [country], so let's interview this applicant". You just never know.

 

[chilly_md]

You are better served investing in MSAR and seeing which schools actually admitted 3 or more international students.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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