<p>athletic recruits have to apply SCEA…</p>
<p>That’s unfortunate.</p>
<p>No they dont… I can personally verify that fact.</p>
<p>99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time they do. That is a lot of nines! lol</p>
<p>No they don’t. Two kids in my dorm alone are Yale athletics recruits applying RD. They both have likely letters as well.</p>
<p>Well, its nice to know that someone can verify Im not a raging lunatic who fits into the .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 % of athletic recruits who apply RD and still get a LL</p>
<p>I apologize, I was under the impression they did, from something I heard about how ddifficult the SCEA pool was. Mea culpa :)</p>
<p>Does the stats sheet take into account of international pool, which is capped at 10% and hence, the acceptance rate is much lower? If it doesn’t I’m pretty sure the actual RD admittance rate is much higher</p>
<p>^^^
You are only talking about MIT right?</p>
<p>^I can assure you that the number of international applicants does not significantly exceed 2,723. Therefore, the admit rate should not be any different.</p>
<p>^no, international admit rate is much lower; I don’t have the link, but the number will tell the story if u take a look at it. Try MIT.</p>
<p>That is because MIT is more renowned internationally. I have spoken to admission officers - Yale does not have quotas for internationals. The proportion comes out approximately even.</p>
<p>"I have spoken to admission officers - Yale does not have quotas for internationals. "</p>
<p>Formally, at least. However, if you examine the demographics of the various years, you see a surprising stability in the various percentiles of sub-groups. A hard and fast number may not be floating around in the committee meetings but you’re mistaken if you thing target ranges or quotas don’t exist.</p>
<p>Remember, Yale admissions gets requests for more:</p>
<p>female athletes
male athletes
legacies
minorities
science kids
engineers
internationals
domestics
men
women
theater people
musicians
private school kids
public school kids
home school kids
staff/faculty kids
etc. (you get the picture)</p>
<p>Since it’s clear that taking more of one sub-group, you’re decreasing whom you can choose in another sub-group – you bet your bottom dollar that informal quotas exist.</p>
<p>i’m surprised that yale is 4th in admit rate…</p>
<p>I’m not surprised. It is Yale.</p>
<p>instead of being 2nd or 3rd i meant :)</p>
<p>Meh. It rises it falls. What boosts it? What makes it decline? Maybe James Franco or some other celeb isn’t hot on the news lately. </p>
<p>Really. You’d be surprised how NYU’s apps shot up when Mary Kate and Ashley were attending…</p>
<p>Big or small admit rate – as long as Yale gets its 1250 each year, that’ll be fine by me.</p>
<p>So do these stats mean that it is (relatively) easier to get in EA/ED or is it just as hard, but the EA/ED people are better qualified?</p>
<p>The latter.</p>
<p>Generally the latter, though it depends on the school. I didn’t get EA at my first choice school and I wonder if it means I really would have had a chance the other way. I mean you can only try and play the numbers game so much, but I think the end result is that it’s basically the same amount of difficulty.</p>