<p>correction to my post above
“will help you”, not “will you”</p>
<p>I’m planning to apply RD. I love Yale, but I need to get too many applications out of the way early on to apply SCEA. I hope it’ll still turn out okay.</p>
<p>Thanks pianista, I’ll definitely work on other essays in the meantine</p>
<p>with recommendations, would it be better for SCEA to ask junior teachers? or senior teachers?</p>
<p>I’m deciding between Yale EA and Brown ED. I like Yale a bit better, but I think I have a lower chance of getting in and I want to get in somewhere early so badly. That would be beyond amazing to know where you’re going in December.</p>
<p>Can someone apply Early action to one school and early decision to another? Seeing that they’re two different types of an early program I figured I could.</p>
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<p>Thanks, and you’re welcome. To answer your other question, I believe so, as long as the EA school is EA (rather than restricted), although obviously you’d have to go to the ED school should you get in.
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<p>How badly do you need financial aid? To be honest, you shouldn’t apply ED anywhere unless you are set on it and can afford it easily. If you think you like Yale more, you’ll keep regretting not giving yourself that opportunity if you apply to Brown early and get accepted there. It would be unwise to put yourself in such a situation. Applying early to apply early and get accepted early may be nice, but ultimately, you want to go to the college you really want to go to, and an ED program may restrict that unnecessarily.</p>
<p>What are the ways to get out of an early decision acceptance? I read that there is some sort of financial aid clause.</p>
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<p>It depends on the school. You can’t apply SCEA and ED (it violates the SCEA). And at some ED schools, like Brown, you can’t apply EA to other schools.</p>
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<p>So check each college’s ED rules to see if they allow you to apply EA somewhere else.</p>
<p>ED means you can’t apply ANYWHERE else early. You definitely can’t apply SCEA and EA together. That violates both because SCEA is basically the same as EA except it’s not binding (meaning if you get in, you don’t have to enroll)</p>
<p>I know that at least for SCEA, you can still apply to schools with rolling admission or something like that…like public universities.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat deciding between upenn Ed or Yale scea. These r my clear top 2 choices at this point but I feel like I’m too common for Yale with 2300+ sat, 4.0 gpa, Asian in a large public school with common club roles and athletics. I would be ecstatic to get into Penn early but I feel I might regret not trying for Yale, even if that means enduring a defferal first.</p>
<p>Question about EA in general. I am taking the October SAT-one last shot-and the deadline for SCEA is Nov.1st. Can I submit all other application materials earlier and the Oct. SAT results when they are available, which could be after Nov. 1st?
Thanks!</p>
<p>The last possible test date for Yale Single Choice Early Action is NOVEMBER. So you could actually take the test a month later (though I don’t necessarily recommend that).</p>
<p>Thanks Disney guy!</p>
<p>this is getting to be a huge q&a thread, which is so helpful, but let’s turn it into a more casual outlet?</p>
<p>There are so many people applying, wouldn’t it be great if we would make it into yale already knowing some of the other students through cc? this is like a life journey here xD I’m just curious, what made you guys fall for Yale? and what are your proudest achievements and all that? </p>
<p>I remember having Princeton as my dream school at the beginning of high school; I hadn’t done a lot of research so I basically picked it because of its name. Sophomore year I started to get letters through collegeboard, and did a bit more research. I stumbled upon this one amazing site with all these videos about the colleges from a casual standpoint and the students from harvard/princeton all talked about the immense competition. Yale peeps, however, were more in competition with themselves. I know that’s not the most reliable source but it got me interested in Yale, and everything I found out after that just made me love it more. </p>
<p>The funny thing is when I was still interested in princeton, a friend and I went to an antique store; we found this old skeleton key and it had YALE inscribed in it (I later found out Yale is also the name of a keymaking company) and I bought it, eventhough I wasn’t really interested in it then. It’s sort of ironic now. Key to Yale! …wish there was a real one xD</p>
<p>I personally fell in love with Yale when I went on the college visit. The campus is amazing, and the tour guide did an amazing job of selling the residential college system and making it seem like Hogwarts, lol.
My proudest achievement…I haven’t really done anything amazing, but I’ve gotten into MICA’s Tuscany Program, and got a big engineering award at a county science fair. They’re nothing major, but I feel like they’re somewhat special.
I feel exactly like RFK68. I love both schools, and really want to get in early to get rid of a lot of stress. I think that I will just apply to Yale SCEA because it is my first choice, and Brown says that chances are no better ED than RD (according to the vice dean of admissions at an info session I went to). The same is probably true for Yale though…</p>
<p>@ lanaesque: TheU? It got me interested in Yale, too! I haven’t had the opportunity to visit yet (I might over the summer), but I love Yale’s residential college system, it’s friendly/chill Ivy (behind Brown, of course!) vibe, opportunities and balance between academics/research and community service/extracurricular activities. Plus, although this sounds super lame, I would love to be in the YPMB (marching band)… their satirical halftime shows and Harvard-pwning props are hilarious.</p>
<p>Yeah Tungsten! Haha, I love everyone one of those things! I dedicate time to studying and all that but I couldn’t handle intense competition 24/7, Yale just seems full of people who are so clever and inspiried but know how to have fun on the side. I’m a theatre person so their focus in drama completely hooked me. Along with those hilarious traditions! Those harvard/yale games are PRICELESS I’ve heard, form the people that were sober enough to even remember anything anyways xD </p>
<p>Yale’s visited my city a couple of times and everytime they mention the residential college system they make some sort of allusion to Hogwarts xD I love it, who doesn’t want to go to Hogwarts? I really wish I could visit it, but I’m west coast and the funds are a bit spectacular. But from all the videos and all the pics, ahh, GORGEOUS!</p>
<p>my dream school was princeton too at one time! but of course, since i can’t ever make up my mind, my dream school followed something like this: princeton till 10th grade (i have close ties to new jersey), penn halfway through 10th grade, princeton till the end of 10th grade, then yale till now.</p>
<p>beforehand, though, they were all superficial reasons for liking them. princeton for it’s rep, and then penn because i thought i wanted to crunch numbers behind a desk all day in finance, then princeton again for a “pretty campus,” which, i guess, is a decently-legit answer. but then came along yale (i watch theU.com extensively too!! i’ve seen all the yale ones, haha.) which i fell in love with due to its residential college system and the whole noncompetitive, ARTSY environment. it wasn’t love at first sight, as i sort of distanced myself from it initially because i’m not really a politics guy. but then again, i’m an artsy-type person, and i also enjoy humanities and science/math pretty equally, so i feel, at least academically, at home when i think about yale. then there’s the diverse environment, in terms of both race, culture, and sexuality that i just NEED.</p>
<p>oh, how badly i want to go to yale. i visit this board too often. however, it’s too bad i bombed sophomore year because i moved and had to adjust (3.82… 'nuff said) and am an ORM. 
still, i’m excited for SCEA. if rejected, i can at least get a move-on with my life.</p>
<p>i just read the Yale 2013 thread and i am thinking I should apply RD, unless I blow my ACT in June out of the water. I am so worried I am not strong enough, ahhhh this is stressful.</p>
<p>Lol, don’t stress out too much. Either you’re in or you’re not, and if not, then you’ll still probably end up at a really great school where you’ll get a similar quality education. There’s nothing wrong with being a bit nervous, but don’t have a panic attack, there’s too much time left for that.</p>