<p>Hey I am considering applying to Yale next year EA. Will this give me any advantage over a RD applicant? Also, given that Harvard and Princeton have eliminated their early programs, will this make the applicant pool for Yale EA a whole lot harder, since those who want to go to Princeton or Harvard will inevitably apply to an early action school and not an early decision? Thanks!</p>
<p>what will happen this fall is a good question and your guess is as good as anybody`s</p>
<p>my guess is yale will be flooded with SCEA applicants and admit rate will be very, very low </p>
<p>I think there will be no(fewer) long shots applying SCEA and instead they will apply to Dart, Colum, Pen or Brown where applying ED will give them a distinct advantage. This will also make the applicant pool very tough for Yale SCEA as the less competetive applicants will make up less of the the SCEA pool than usual.</p>
<p>should be interesting to see what happens but I think odds are against those who apply to Yale SCEA</p>
<p>I don't think it will be any significantly different than other years. The best students will apply; and the best of the best will get in.</p>
<p>I think the number of competitive SCEA applicants will double. A large number of people who would have applied early to H or P will now apply SCEA to Y. A competitive candidate whose first choice is H or P is not going to apply ED to another Ivy. How Y will react is another question: they may reject or defer a lot of H and P legacies.</p>
<p>Remember: Harvard and Princeton ED or EA applicants will most probably surge to Yale for SCEA--> SCEA applicants are, well, essentially screwed.</p>
<p>^^agree with the above post</p>
<p>Yale may be more difficulty this year than other years....ouch</p>
<p>Is the average acceptance rate for those who were deferred EA still higher than RD applicants?</p>
<p>quick question.
do legacies rly help a lot???
i have 1 legacy at yale.
And would you say that it would be easier to get into yale early than regular considering the legacy for the year 2010 or 11</p>
<p>I could only believe that many potential Harvard and Princeton EA'ers would apply to Yale SCEA, thinking that it will increase their chances of getting into an elite school. Maybe not all of this particular group, but enough to drive the acceptance rate lower than we have seen this year. I'm glad I got my admissions to Yale out of the way.</p>
<p>But at the same time many will rationalize that's it's not worth giving up their one ED/EA to Yale and so admission to Brown, Columbia ED will get more competitive as well.</p>
<p>It is going to be much more difficult to be admitted to YALE SCEA this year than in any other previous year</p>
<p>This years Applicants who are similar to those who applied SCEA to harvard and Princeton last year, generally high quality applicants, will for the most part be applying to Yale SCEA because of the elimination of SCEA at Harvard and Princeton</p>
<p>It is doubtful that many will apply ED to Brown or Columbia. I think Yale will get the vast majority of them</p>
<p>But I think a lot of people will be deferred and then accepted later. I mean...if everyone rushes to Yale for EA, then there will be less people doing RD, right?</p>
<p>In this case, is there any way to emphasize that Yale is truly your number one choise? Will scheduling an on campus interview make a clear difference? Or sending out a National Merit Letter thing to Yale?</p>
<p>The answer: no.
Yale should not and does not care if a student has Yale as a top choice, or whether it is amongst the student's top choices. Yale aims at accepting the best, and the most suitable. It would never reject a more qualified candidate that does not have Yale as a top choice, instead of an inferior candidate who really really wants to go to Yale.</p>
<p>It's not about how much you want it, it's about why Yale wants you.</p>
<p>Then there is Stanford SCEA which would attract the high quality West Coast
applicants given the Harvard, Pton RD only mode.....?</p>
<p>"Yale should not and does not care if a student has Yale as a top choice, or whether it is amongst the student's top choices."</p>
<p>But then what would be the point of having a SCEA choice available at all? :/</p>
<p>LOL. Good point...</p>
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<p>Hmm, true..but there could be tons of things to justify that....like the fact that it wants to fill in space earlier, it wants to alleviate some of the Regular Action pressure, and so on...but bear in mind that there are many intrinsic errors in the EA process. After all, that is why Harvard and Princeton did away with their choices-it's the "comparison with the applicant pool" thing...</p>
<p>I'm starting to think I should apply to stanford SCEA instead of yale...:/ Even though yale is my top choice.</p>
<p>I think you should go with your top choice because in the end you might regret it! Plus, I bet tons of people are going to apply to Stanford also...so...</p>