<p>We are also playing the game in a very smart way, rejecting qualified students who probably wouldn’t attend. Although some people think yield protection is a bad tactic, I view it as an art form. It is very difficult to sieve through the applicants to figure out which students would rather go to other schools. There is no shame in using yield protection, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Everyone does it to differing degrees, and I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t make extensive use of it to help our undergraduate programs catch up to our grad schools in quality.</p>