<p>Dear Iheartschool12, bluebayou, and dunbar : Something interesting to consider with respect to yield calculations - my sources inside admissions mentioned this year that with 33,000 applications (and increase of 10%) and the still fixed admissions target of 2,250 slots, acceptances figured to be between 6,500 and 7,500 applications. It would take hundreds of applications to change the yield percentages in any meaningful way - which is precisely why schools dealing with these types of numbers are not exercising “yield protection”.</p>
<p>bluebayou has this story pegged correctly; the discussion is about academic profile and academic/environmental fit rather than yield protection. Let’s offer this example : students who have 2250 on their three-way SAT exams, great GPAs, and such are being rejected or deferred; when you read their profiles, similar rejections/deferrals are being seen within the Boston College cohort schools. Surely not all of these schools are practicing yield protection in concert against a single candidate. The issue is related to the application himself/herself, not a university based yield protection attribute.</p>