# Yield protection

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Alleged admissions practice

**Yield protection** is an alleged [admissions](/source/College_admissions) practice in which an [academic institution](/source/Academic_institution) rejects or delays the acceptance of highly qualified students on the grounds that such students are likely to be accepted by, and then enroll in, more selective institutions.[1][2] The purpose of the practice is to increase [yield](/source/Yield_(college_admissions)), a statistic that reflects the proportion of students that accept their admissions offer.[3]

Some critics of the theory hold that it is a myth propagated by anxious college applicants to cope with rejection.[4] This view proposes that, rather than yield protection, it is actually negative subjective factors in an application that may contribute to a rejection, despite the applicant's strong qualifications.[5]

## See also

- [College admissions in the United States](/source/College_admissions_in_the_United_States)

- [Matriculation](/source/Matriculation)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Beware the Tufts Syndrome"](http://www.collegeconfidential.com/admit/beware-the-tufts-syndrome/). *[College Confidential](/source/College_Confidential_(company))*. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Glass Floor: Colleges Reject Top Applicants, Accepting Only the Students Likely to Enroll"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB991083160294634500). *[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)*. Retrieved 25 July 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [""What Is 'Yield' in the College Admissions Process?""](https://web.archive.org/web/20160313002821/http://collegeapps.about.com/od/glossaryofkeyterms/g/yield.htm). Archived from [the original](http://collegeapps.about.com/od/glossaryofkeyterms/g/yield.htm) on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2016-03-19.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Compass Academics (3 August 2020). ["Power of the Yield Protection Myth"](https://compassacademics.com/power-of-the-yield-protection-myth/). *Compass Academics*. Retrieved 7 April 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Zearfoss, Sarah (2010-03-01). ["Yield Protection: myth or reality? Or a little of both?"](https://www.law.umich.edu/connection/a2z/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11). *[University of Michigan Law School](/source/University_of_Michigan_Law_School)*. [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan). Retrieved 2016-04-19.

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