<p>Yield is the percent of accepted students who enroll in the school. So if Bard accepts, for easy math’s sake, 1,000 students and 700 enroll, they have a 70% yield rate for that year.</p>
<p>Yield pretection is what creates Tufts Syndrome. If a school feels that a candidate is too qualified or too uninterested in them, they waitlist or reject them. This is because they want to protect their yield – if they accept a student who is obviously using them as a saftey then their yield goes down. Tufts is famous for this, which is why it’s called Tufts Syndrome.</p>
<p>Hope that helped.</p>