Confused on rejection?

eyemgh
Fri, 04 Mar 2016 05:02:05 +0000

@Mikey17, they accept the best students ranked by their MCA and then admit the ones who choose to go. The point she is making is that they do not protect yield. They try to get the best class they can at the expense of raising yield. If they lowered their requirements in an effort to increase yield, they’d miss out on the MANY very high stats students that DO go to Poly.

The first take home message, based on the Naviance data is that they do not routinely reject highly qualified candidates. The second take home message, based on the anecdotal evidence supplied by @camomof3 is that they do not have secret high schools identified or zip codes picked to protect yield. If they did, far fewer of the students at her son’s high school would be accepted. Instead, they still get in year after year and very few accept, making the yield from that particular school abysmal.