Truth Behind Schools Caring About Yield Rate

[datboi_58]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

Assume everything I’m stating is post-interview. Some have claimed that schools might not accept you if they aren’t sure you’re going to accept their offer because it makes their acceptance offer/matriculation ratio look bad. However, I have yet to find a place where that information is even public as MSAR does not list acceptance rates but only matriculation rates. Furthermore, it seems like a bigger loss on part of the school to potentially lose a well-qualified applicant in hopes of keeping a good acceptance offer/matriculation ratio.

Now obviously schools care if people accept theirs offers for a variety of reasons but is there any truth to the fact that someone might not get an acceptance offer because a school thinks they will not accept it but is otherwise well-qualified?

 

[hydrophobicmed]

Assume everything I’m stating is post-interview. Some have claimed that schools might not accept you if they aren’t sure you’re going to accept their offer because it makes their acceptance offer/matriculation ratio look bad. However, I have yet to find a place where that information is even public as MSAR does not list acceptance rates but only matriculation rates. Furthermore, it seems like a bigger loss on part of the school to potentially lose a well-qualified applicant in hopes of keeping a good acceptance offer/matriculation ratio.

Now obviously schools care if people accept theirs offers for a variety of reasons but is there any truth to the fact that someone might not get an acceptance offer because a school thinks they will not accept it but is otherwise well-qualified?

they can give an offer to someone who's too qualified very early, but that means the school is gonna sit on the sideline to wait for that acceptee to decide whether to come or not. That will slow down the process and potentially make the school miss other candidates who are more likely to enroll.

For example, a school with an average stat of LM72, they can offer someone of LM 80 on Oct. 15, but they know this person is gonna get accepted in other places (where decisions won't come out until March), so that spot is locked up. In the meantime a 73 may get snatched up by some other place.

 

[KnightDoc]

Assume everything I’m stating is post-interview. Some have claimed that schools might not accept you if they aren’t sure you’re going to accept their offer because it makes their acceptance offer/matriculation ratio look bad. However, I have yet to find a place where that information is even public as MSAR does not list acceptance rates but only matriculation rates. Furthermore, it seems like a bigger loss on part of the school to potentially lose a well-qualified applicant in hopes of keeping a good acceptance offer/matriculation ratio.

Now obviously schools care if people accept theirs offers for a variety of reasons but is there any truth to the fact that someone might not get an acceptance offer because a school thinks they will not accept it but is otherwise well-qualified?

No, post interview there is no such thing. Schools have all the information they need pre-II to know if you are unlikely to attend, and you will be screened out at that time and not offered an II if they are inclined to engage in yield protection. They won't waste time and resources giving you an II only to then yield protect you out and not give you an A.

So, yeah, the answer to your question is yield protection is a real thing, but it happens pre-II, not post.

 

[Goro]

Assume everything I’m stating is post-interview. Some have claimed that schools might not accept you if they aren’t sure you’re going to accept their offer because it makes their acceptance offer/matriculation ratio look bad.

This has no basis in reality, and I've never seen SDNers make this claim. I'll wager that you are misreading something that said here.

The term is resource protection, which means certain schools aren't going to invite a high stats candidate, because they know from historical norms that these candidates are not likely to attend.