<p>Is it easier to get into Princeton or Yale EA
also, has anyone gotten into Princeton EA with a 3.65 GPA?</p>
<p>Of course people have. It depends on where you go to school, how hard your course-load is, and what you do on the side. And neither one is easier, so don't think that way. And Princeton only does ------ED-------, not EA. Apply to the one you like better. I was deciding between Princeton and Columbia ED, and I decided on Columbia because I visited both back to back and thought about it for a long time.</p>
<p>you're a junior, stop worrying about it. You have to have other options besides the top ivys.</p>
<p>statistically speaking, its easier to get into princeton. yale took 16.5 percent this year, deferred 42 percent, and rejected the rest...</p>
<p>i believe princeton accepts around 30 percent and defers a large portion of the rest. and a 3.65 is not an auto-reject (even if it is unweighted)...my ex got into princeton (c/o 2007) with a 3.75 or something like that out of 4.33. like jono said, other factors are taken into account, not just the raw number.</p>
<p>Look Kebree! Look! Someone else from Kentucky!</p>
<p>No offense to the OP, but in about 3 months, I won't care where anyone is applying...</p>
<p>In a more serious vein, I'll take the obvious line of, "apply early where you really want to go."</p>
<p>I wish I had taken that advice. I applied to one of those wonderful EA Ivies (I was afraid of ED), am currently deferred (from a school I don't really care about), and am waiting with baited breath for my first choice decision. </p>
<p>One of the main things I can stress about the entire process is to have no regrets, because its possible that you'll keep them for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Hopefully mine will only last until April.</p>
<p>i'll be honest with you, your name doesnt have to be ivyguy. Whichever you choose, apply there for a better reason.</p>
<p>wow you are one of those weird people who already think about college...</p>
<p>i decided where i wanted to apply three weeks ago...i'm still not done unfortunately lol</p>
<p>Yes! A fellow Kentuckian. Which holler you from, twinkle? ;)</p>
<p>lol, i'm from the great city of louisville...what about you?</p>
<p>The great city of Lexington, Horse Capital of the World :)</p>
<p>whoa...kat...21 more and you're at 2000, girl!</p>
<p>Yeah....bizarre. Well, 20 now :)
Do you remember when you and kev were racing to get to 1,000 the night before decisions were out? lol.</p>
<p>louisville and lexington...the only two cities in the entire state, really. lol. are you a dunbar kid?</p>
<p>No, I'm technically "schooled at home" this year since I'll be spending the next semester abroad. (I did dual enrollment courses the first semester.)</p>
<p>It's really been crazy trying to explain this to adcoms, lol. Good times. Dunbar was a good guess, though....it seems like at least 80% of the ivy applicants from Lexington go there.</p>
<p>Those were the good ol' days. Now there's no competition, haha.</p>
<p>ooo fun, a semester abroad always sounds good. and you being one less dunbar kid to compete with makes me happy, what with school rivalries and all...although your stats are amazing, which doesn't help me at all anyway. lol.</p>
<p>no twinkle yale just has a lot more applicants but many more less-qualified applicants. u cant judge which one is easier. from past studies however princeton has had a much stronger early applicant pool than yale or harvard, but mainly because yale/harvard have 4000 EA applicants while princeton has 2000. they are incomparable.</p>
<p>Whoa... Kentucky People!!</p>
<p>I'm from Lexington, KY!!</p>
<p>wow, i never thought that many kentucky ppl were on CC...</p>
<p>and shrek: i'm not saying that yale is harder than princeton or vice versa. i'm merely saying that statistically speaking, those are the admit rates for their respective early pools. that's the only way you can compare them: through numerical data. also, i'm not sure what you mean by "strong early applicant pool" or "less-qualified applicants." how do you qualify that assertion? there are strong applicants, weak applicants, URMs, recruited atheletes, legacies, prodigies, siemens winners, intel winners, 1600s...i'm sure you get my point, applying to yale and princeton, and for that matter, a lot of other schools too. i hardly think that you can say one pool has "less-qualified applicants." and honestly, both are great schools, both have great facilities/programs, both are hard to get into, and i'd be happy at either institution. </p>
<p>btw, i applied early to yale =)</p>