<p>The RD rate is lower than 5%. 5.8% was the overall rate with the regular and early combined last year. But this year they selected a greater portion of their class SCEA than last which pushed the SCEA acceptance rates up and will push the regular rates down about to 2-3%-just a rough estimate in my head someone can do the actual math. </p>
<p>I just don’t buy that the SCEA pool is 10x as strong as the regular pool. I think that they are definitely accepting people that would not get in otherwise-not that they aren’t qualified this is harvard lol- to manipulate their yield and acceptance numbers. Especially for this year I think H accepted more SCEA to try to get their overall acceptance rate below stanford. I doubt it worked just because of the small increase in S applicants and the small decrease in H applicants </p>