<p>I got a really crap SAT score and I still got deferred by Yale...goes to show that there's more that just the SAT score. If Yale cared so much about them, I would've been rejected a long time ago.</p>
<p>A deferral is more often a polite reject.</p>
<p>Why don't you tell that to everyone who got deferred? That's more than 40% of the EA applicants.</p>
<p>I disagree, chanky.
a deferral is a deferral.
It's not a rejection, or they'd call it one.</p>
<p>Yes, a deferral is not a rejection at Yale. You will be seriously considered in the RD round.</p>
<p>Very true, Yale has one of the highest rates of admitting deferees from EA.</p>
<p>In the deferral letter, it said last year the rate was at 14.4% (compared to overall 9.9%). That's considered really high?</p>
<p>Do some schools admit deferrees at lower rates than overall?</p>
<p>I got in EA with a 1360. Test scores aren't everything. My ACT, however, was a 33 which is pretty good. I do play rugby, but I wasn't actively recruited... so as long as your ECs, writing, and GPA/Rank are good, they'll even out a low test score or two. in my opinion :)</p>
<p>See, it doesn't matter then Jimmypop. Yale looked only at your 33.</p>
<p>Unlike Harvard (which rejected a ridiculously small percentage of its applicant pool... I think about 200 applicants or something), Yale rejects a serious percentage of its EA pool (35% or something?). A deferral means something because a lot of people get rejected right off the bat.</p>
<p>i wonder what u had to do to be rejected by Harvard EA</p>
<p>I have a question, my SAT score was low for Yale, and so were my SAT II's, but then my ACT score was in the lower thirties. Do you think that Yale will just look at the ACT one and disregard the others? Or will they consider both since I sent them both? (I know this is a little bit off topic but I saw some mention of ACT vs. SAT so I just wondered if anyone knew about this) Thanks.</p>
<p>they say they don't care if you took the sat or the act and only consider the higher one, but i've heard that the eastern schools actually do have a bias against the act.</p>
<p>I think the ACT is a much better indicator of your academic strength....the SAT tries way too much to try to trick you. The ACT is very cut and dry.</p>