Tufts syndrome at RPI??

smoda61
Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:49:10 +0000

Ok, I’m sure that I am going to regret this but I’m going to take the bait and respond.

Google Tuft syndrome and you get an explanation:



Yield protection is an admissions practice where a university or academic institution rejects or wait-lists highly qualified students on the grounds that such students are bound to be accepted by more prestigious universities or programs and thus almost certainly would not enroll, thus increasing the yield rate and lowering the acceptance rate.[citation needed] Yield rate refers to the proportion of students who matriculate (i.e. accept an admissions offer and attend the college) after acceptance to a college.[citation needed] Yield and admitted rates are of concern to academic institutions because they are sometimes considered as factors in annual school rankings.[citation needed]

Yield protection is sometimes called Tufts Syndrome,[1], though Tufts University is certainly not the only school accused of implementing yield protection.



I am assuming that since you brought this topic up that you feel that you are an example of yield protection at RPI.

Your scores are very nice but to break them down. Your cr is above the mean but below the 75%, math is above both the mean and 75%, and your writing is below both mean and 75%. Though these are all scores that could get you in, they certainly don’t fit your “tufts syndrome” concern of rejected overqualified applicants.

If you looked at the profiles of many of this year’s accepted students on the other thread, there are very strong accepted profiles over there. Again, if your tufts syndrome claim held water, those students should have been denied because there is a strong possibility that these students could be receiving acceptances from “more prestigious universities”.

All and all, I am sorry that you are disappointed with being waitlisted, but I don’t see your case for yield protection.