<p>Alright, so like a lot of CCer's, I was deferred Yale SCEA and hope that April will bring some good news for once. </p>
<p>Anyone care to share stories, experiences, or observations on the students who ultimately got an acceptance from Yale? How likely is this to happen, exactly? Doesn't have to be statistics, but is the general consensus that EA applicants are much stronger and thus also fare very well in RD? What about predictions for # of applicants/yield for RD with Yale's current situation?</p>
<p>I desperately need some feel-good stories to bide my time until D-Day Round II. All who care to say anything, go for it!</p>
<p>well, now that we’ve seen our scea decisions, we will be prepped for RD decisions.
i’m gonna do it right next time!!
because it was like <em>click</em> OMG DEFERRAL…no time to calm myself</p>
<p>in april it’s gonna be <em>close eyes</em> <em>click</em> <em>listen for any sounds</em> forrealzz this time!</p>
<p>EA is a slightly more competitive pool, but because Yale has only SCEA, the pool is small, not just in comparison to its RD pool but to other EA pools. So there’s a higher acceptance rate, 13.9% this year (in comparison, MIT’s was 10.4%). Since the acceptance rate drops for RD, I don’t think that the fact that the average EA applicant has a bit higher stats & more or better ECs will make deferred EA applicants more competitive in the RD round.</p>
<p>^ Saying things like that is seriously unacceptable, online or otherwise.</p>
<p>As for predictions, I’d say that Yale’s going to have around 29,000 applicants in total this year. Which means that the admit rate is going to drop again. Oh well, we were doomed from the start, right? :)</p>
<p>Can we please drop all the race hate? 1) You really do need to work for Yale to get in (no more George W Bush being dragged into this, please) and 2) people have been dealt FAR WORSE in life than just being ASIAN. There are people who work their lives off and then have every little thing they’ve done washed away. Need we go on?</p>
<p>And Pigs, I usually don’t tell people off, but that kind of attitude really is petty and unacceptable - even online!</p>
<p>pigs: maybe you were trying to be humorous, but when the same thing’s said too many times (e.g. we already have that Asians and Yale thread where you posted a lot), it just sounds outright racist.</p>
<p>I know at least two people in the past few years who were deferred SCEA and then accepted RD. But I don’t think the acceptance rate for deferred SCEA applicants is meaningfully higher than for qualified RD applicants in general. The RD pool obviously has x percentage of people who have no meaningful chance of admission, and theoretically none of the deferred SCEA applicants fall into that category. But if you think of all the people who were deferred (or even accepted) at Stanford, or who chose to apply EA to MIT, Chicago, Georgetown, etc., and who are applying to Yale RD, you will realize that the RD pool is plenty strong.</p>
<p>there are a lot of people at Yale who were deferred EA and eventually accepted. obviously, it happens lol. it sucks to be deferred (i mean i applied RD and never had to go through what you’re going through) but this coming from a friend who was deferred, waitlisted and later accepted, fall in love with another school, one you’re more likely to get into. get your mind of yale…for now.</p>
<p>there are plenty of deferral => acceptance stories. just look at last year’s thread for hope. i can think of several people off the top of my head who ended up being accepted RD to yale after deferral.</p>
That’s aweeeesome. And deferees- don’t give up hope!! Happy endings happen. <em>hums Enchanted</em></p>