<p>Hey, so does anybody have any stats on the fate of deferred applicants?</p>
<p>I'd imagine that they'd have marginally more success than RD applicants (both because of yield, but also because people who apply RD to Yale, I'd imagine were not particularly strong, either deferred/rejected elsewhere ED/EA, or got in EA elsewhere, but there are only a few places that have EA and stack up with Yale acdemically and in terms of selectivity perhaps only Chicago and MIT.)</p>
<p>But, then again Yale may take the approach you weren't good enough SCEA, not going to be good enough RD?</p>
<p>I think that's one of the best-kept secrets in admissions. Your speculation agrees with what I have observed over the past few years: deferred EA applicants do better than average RD, but not necessarily by a lot. I don't think anyone is planning to disclose this number, however.</p>
<p>Two things to remember: (1) They're not kidding when they say the EA pool is very strong. It takes a lot of confidence in yourself and your record to apply to Yale SCEA, and so the deferred EA applications are probably mainly in the top half of the RD pool. (2) But you have forgotten one important category of RD applicants: people who were accepted somewhere else EA (Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Georgetown), but are interested in maybe exploring other options. There aren't necessarily a lot of those people, but it may be a few hundred, and with only about 1,200 acceptances available RD, a few hundred really strong applicants makes a difference. Back when Harvard had EA, this was probably a more important factor.</p>
<p>This is why I think SCEA, even though they say it doesn't give any advantages, actually does. Because not only does it show interest, but say if you have the same chance in the SCEA round as you did normally. Then, you get a SECOND try at the thing. I think that by itself shows that SCEA does offer a big advantage.</p>
<p>Usually deferred people have a very very small chance of getting in. might be diff this year though, with less deferrals and more qualified ppl.</p>
<p>Yeah... this time thing is throwing me off.
Ugh this news about fewer deferrals is not improving my spirits. Actually it doesn't matter. I want to hear something about more acceptances!
Why can't they start expanding the college this year? How come the lower classes get everything? And the upper classes had it considerably easier, especially 2-4 years ago.</p>
<p>Seriously, we picked a bad year to graduate.</p>
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Yale Daily News, November 13, 2008</p>
<p>The most recent count, taken on Thursday, shows that a record-breaking 5,400 students have applied for admission into the class of 2013, Brenzel said. That figure is expected to climb to about 5,500 once all the received applications have been counted, he added — an increase of 12.5 percent over last year....</p>
<p>...Yale will likely extend fewer acceptance offers to early admissions applicants than it did last year now that the admissions office can better predict yield...
<p>Sorry, didn't mean to be so depressing.... But look on the bright side. If you get accepted, you beat out more people than any other attendee of Yale can ever claim to have done!!</p>
<p>Look on the bright side. If you get rejected by Yale, you got rejected by YALE! Frame that rejection letter on your wall. After all, they only reject like what, 25,000 people out of 3.1 million students each yeah? </p>
<p>I heard when I visited on campus in mid November that they actually want to open the new RCs as fully functional RCs (with upperclassmen funnelled from other colleges) meaning that they're going to further burden the annex housing so they can accept few more people than they can actually fit so that they can funnell people into the new colleges, so maybe we do benefit, however slightly from the 2012 expansion!</p>
<p>i am 100% sure i am rejected because they don't bother putting my TOEFL score up even though they have received it. (I called and they said they are not putting it up)</p>
<p>If i am deferred, why would they not put my score up since I still have a chance for RD round??? T_T</p>
<p>Most of these statistics appear to come out of the deferral letter sent by Yale, although a newspaper article is cited in one case.</p>
<p>Bottom line: odds are still relatively good compared to the RD field as a whole, which was 5.6% last year. Indeed, the rate of RD acceptance when EA deferred applicants are removed is certainly even lower than that.</p>