Can someone please explain to me the value of Yield Percentage to law schools? In my mind it has the same value as me not withdrawing my outstanding apps because I want to see how many schools will accept me (even if I already know where I'm going). But beyond stroking egos, what value is there to yield protecting?
Yeah I understand the literal meaning, but isn't YP'ing an artificial way of determining how desirable that school is? They're limiting the sample size to only those they think will accept
i just did a quick look through of other ppl discussing it online, and it seems like it's a factor in the USNWR rankings. Maybe that's changed this year, but to me that's a satisfactory answer, tbh
I get the USNWR factor. That's definitely important.
Ijustwannagetinman
16:23
@doublesplitexperiment: I got a decision without a status change! It moved up in law hub a few days, but it still said “application complete” until well after I got accepted
i think the key thing here is that there's really no definitive answer. schools deny its existence (except for Dean Z in one video i think), it's definitely less frequent than ppl probably assume
ClassyPleasantHeron
16:24
"Yield protection" is just cope for people that don't understand Median Protection.
I understand that theorizing is all we can do at the moment, so appreciate the discourse. I very well may have been a yield pick for Michigan, so I'm not totally trashing it as a concept. I just don't really think it's as important in practice as it appears to be.
@ClassyPleasantHeron: good example. Would you agree that stat has no bearing on how Mich and Wayne state compare as law schools, though?
luckyapp
16:27
Crazy how there was pretty much nothing from nyu today... Wednesdays used to be great for them
Enter-Name-Here
16:28
thats not a good example at all lol people applying to local law schools are more likely to attend because they are often stay local or bust
ClassyPleasantHeron
16:28
Median protection is why someone with a 3.95/175 has a better chance of getting into Yale than, say, Georgetown. Yale can't turn all of those candidates down and keep their ridiculously high medians. (Although to be fair, they do it through admitting their own undergrads.)
@ClassyPleasantHeron: but the only reason Gtown would reject (or more likely WL) that Yale-qualified person is because they don't expect them to accept the offer. Even though those numbers would increase Gtown's medians. So we're back to YP...
ClassyPleasantHeron
16:32
@NT-GLTY: I can agree that yield is not the metric that people use when comparing UMich to Wayne State. Generally speaking, students that want to work in Michigan go to Wayne State.