Proof that yield protection exists with mid-tiers.

[Nietzschelover]

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How are they going to know this? Cincinnati's median MCAT is a 34; you cant just look at an applicant with a 3.7/33 even if they are from that region and assume theyll end up a) getting in there b) going there.

There is no school in that situation for someone from Ohio, be it Wright State, NEOMED, Toledo where you can just assume the applicant is going to end up there.

Makes sense and I hope you are right. Just trying to understand what some of the "patterns" might be that gyngyn referenced in terms of resource management for this level of applicant.

 

[gyngyn]

Makes sense and I hope you are right. Just trying to understand what some of the "patterns" might be that gyngyn referenced in terms of resource management for this level of applicant.

He's right.
Patterns are more along the lines of "feeder" schools, programs, states, regions...

 

[Nietzschelover]

He's right.

Yep. I think you endorsed that resource management can and does happen for this level of applicant. Just trying to gain some insight about what that might look like.

 

[Med Ed]

I'm following you, and I hope they don't overthink to this degree, but if Wake and Jeff felt pretty sure an applicant is likely to get an admit from, let's say Cincy, why wouldn't they consider that for the sake of resource management? Wouldn't you imagine that IS applicants who get admits to Cincy and Wake are going to choose Cincy at something like at least a 80/20 clip?

There are more qualified applicants than seats, and established schools have well worn paths to follow. A mid-tier private in a semi-desirable location knows its matriculant averages. It knows that it might have to invite 7 applicants per seat in order to interview 5-6, and ultimately accept 2-3 to fill.

 

[Goro]

Every now and then someone on our Adcom (not a interviewer of the person in question) will say of a candidate from far away "he's not going to come here".

We never, ever act upon this.

This attitude you menttion is not yield protection. "Yield protection" is a mythical creation of feverish pre-med minds that med school somehow give IIs to people and then reject them because that they want their median stats to stay high.

As at gyngyn's school, never once in my > 10years on the Adcom have I ever heard any Dean or administrator utter the words "yield protection in the concrete or the abstract.

I would imagine it varies from school to school, but I wonder if post-interview, adcoms ever consider the fact that there's a very low probability that a candidate they would like to admit would actually attend their institution and therefore would rather accept someone else? This could be construed as "yield protection" but perhaps just more about being prudent and efficient about handing out acceptances. After all, it still takes time for them to go through the process of accepting someone, even if it's a rather minimal amount of time. At the end of the day, they would rather have a stable class sooner rather than scramble to fill a bunch of vacant seats later. That and they would like to balance out having the best class possible. Just my 2 cents