Objective or subjective admissions

blueiguana
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:24:35 +0000

Simply put, Tufts Syndrome is Yield Protection. It is when a university turns down highly qualified students who seems to be using that university as a safety school. Top colleges, such as Tufts, reject or waitlist these students in order to keep their admissions yield high. They want to admit students who are really going to attend.

It got it’s name because Tufts used to be notorious for this. Ironically, Tufts is not the worst offender of Tufts Syndrome anymore.