<p>anyone??????????</p>
<p>18.11% (885/4,888)</p>
<p>Note that, at least according to Yale, the admissions criteria are no different from regular admission and the higher admit rate is a result of a higher-quality pool of applicants.</p>
<p>from here</p>
<p>Yale accepted 18.1 percent of its early action applicants for the Class of 2012, a decrease of 1.6 percent from last year. Yale accepted 885 students of the 4,888 who applied; last year 709 students were accepted from 3,594 early applicants. Yale deferred 65 percent of applicants and rejected 16 percent. Although this year’s acceptance rate decreased, the number of students accepted increased. The number of applications received this year increased by 36 percent over last year.</p>
<p>Yale Admits 8.3 Percent Overall, approx. 5.6% Regular Decision
Yale received 22,813 total applications this year. 1,892 applicants were admitted, for an admit rate of 8.3 percent, compared to 9.6 percent last year.</p>
<p>looks like your chances at yale are significantly greater in the early pool</p>
<p>^not really. RD is just filled with a lot more "well, i have nothing to lose" applicants.</p>
<p>i think that most athletes are also accepted early.</p>
<p>I think legacies also have to apply early to be considered a legacy.</p>
<p>^ I don't think that's true.</p>
<p>The conventional wisdom is that some factors, like legacy, may be more helpful in the early round. Whether this has any validity is unknown.</p>
<p>I think eating food's comment is right. In the EA pool, you're passing up your opportunity to do any other early program, so you have to be serious, whereas with RD, the only thing you lose is the $75 app fee and the hour it takes to write your supplement. Also, the recruited athlete bit helps.</p>