<p>Can anyone tell me what the chances are of being admitted to Yale in RD after being deferred for EA?</p>
<p>16.4 percent accepted EA
14.4 percent accepted RD when they were deferred
approx. 7-8 percent accepted RD
(these numbers are approximate, plus or minus .5) </p>
<p>So, statistically, it's twice as great for deferees than for RD applicants, but the admissions people say they don't favor deferees over RDs.</p>
<p>Thank you suburbian...my daughter is still hoping it'll work out for her. She's applied to other schools but is still holding out some hope for Yale.</p>
<p>I'm not a math person, but does that mean if you apply EA to Yale you have a 30% chance of getting in? Or can you not just add the numbers like that?</p>
<p>There were 3931 EA applicants this year. out of those, approx. 16.4% were accepted, meaning that about 645 students were accepted. About 38% (very very approximate number- can anyone check?) are rejected and the rest are deferred (about 45%, or 1750 students). If about 14.4% of those 1750 students are admitted, that makes 250 more EA applicants admitted. Add that to the 645 already admitted and you get approximately 900 EA applicants admitted out of the original 3900...meaning that the overall rate of EA admissions is about 23%. </p>
<p>Of course, if I messed up the percentages anywhere, that number could be seriously skewed.</p>
<p>that was amazing asterstar</p>
<p>Is anyone doing anything to try to increase those chances after being deferred? After all, it's really either 100% or 0% for any given person.</p>
<p>I still need to write the letter telling Yale I still love them, but bleh, just haven't been able to yet. Soon though.</p>
<p>I wrote it last week- three sentences! Aaaah, what else am I going to send them, though? Also still have to call the rep. I hate this.</p>
<p>After the initial jolt of the deferral, I had thought it would get easier as time went on, but in fact it hasn't. It has made me worried that s will have bad luck at the other schools too. It really is pretty demoralizing. I find myself wondering over and over just what exactly the accepted students had going for them that he didn't have, or why Yale had reservations about him....It's going to be a long 2 1/2 months.</p>
<p>Andi, I think you just summarized the concerns of all, or at least most, deferred students perfectly.</p>
<p>What are you going to say to your rep in the phone call?</p>
<p>The ED acceptance numbers posted here are obsolete.</p>
<p>In fact, the acceptance rate for completed EA apps was 18.1%</p>
<p>704 admitted
1876 deferred
1312 denied
41 withdrawn</p>
<p>Net completed EA apps: 2892</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yale.edu/asc/%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/asc/</a></p>
<p>That the rate was higher makes me feel even worse.... I don't know what I'm going to say to the rep, or even if she'll listen to me. I'll try tomorrow. Just say that it's my first choice and if she has any additional information she wants or something like that.</p>
<p>I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't done anything to follow up his/her deferral yet. I don't even know whom to ask to call my rep- I know most people ask their guidance counselors but someone told me that it would look more impressive if my school's head of IB called...but would that look like I'm trying to bypass my counselor? And I didn't know that some people would be calling their reps themselves. Arrgggh. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, did/will you guys snail mail or email your letters?</p>
<p>So here's a question: How should I address my letter to Yale proclaiming my undying love for the school blah blah? Or rather, who should I address it to? "Dear Yale Admissions Committee"? "To Whom It May Concern"? Yale is completely, totally, whole-heartedly my number one school, and I guess I'll just say that explicitly in my letter... if I only knew how to get started!</p>
<p>Also, I'm attaching an updated/complete resume with my letter, since my application didn't really touch on quite a few important aspects of my extra-curricular activities, and I've done some more cool stuff since October. This might sound weird, but I've never had to write a resume before, and I don't really know how I should format it. Does anyone have any helpful links or an example or something that they could show me that might help me out? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>And garou, I'm snail-mailing it.</p>
<p>I modeled my resume after the common app, because that's what Yale said they are used to seeing and prefer.</p>
<p>Asterstar, that's right (your math) and that 23% is exactly equal to Harvard's accept rate...Harvard just takes it all EA. There's some strategy imbedded in this, but who knows what it is. And, like somebody prior just said, your chances are either 100% or zero. That's why deferrals should not fear the low rates at other schools. You're above profile at most of 'em. All this hard work, tho, it would be so nice to be able to feel like the superstars you are. You realize that "low scores" like 700's are still top-single-digits in the most advanced society in civilization,right???</p>
<p>i don't know whether i should be elated or depressed by those statistics</p>
<p>I sent two copies of my "Please Accept Me I Love You" letter to the Yale admissions office. One addressed to my regional admissions officer with an excerpt from a speech I had to give at my school and one to Richard Shaw (or as my college counselor has affectionately nicknamed him, RickShaw). One piece of advice, don't be afraid to sound pathetic and beg. Reading my letter now makes me laugh because it was so desperate, and I doubt it had much impact, but for whatever combination of things I did after being deferred (I also worked to get an alumni interview that I didn't get in the EA round because the person assigned to me then decided never to contact me) and things that were already present on my application, I was accepted.</p>