Does recruit hurt other students' chance of getting into Yale?

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My high school usually admits 0-2 to Yale per year. There is one admitted through recruit for class of 2024. Does this mean that other students’ chance will be much smaller?

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No

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Echoing the above - no. Recruited athletes are competing in their own pool. That spot was never one that was available to you or anyone else that was not an athlete of that sport/gender/position.

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Who knows? Yale doesn’t have a quota per high school. They aren’t reviewing your app only against others in your class. You’re in competition with everyone in the country who applies, or at least those who apply unhooked.

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It could. Or it could not.
Bottom line: your job is to make the best app you can. And first, to know what that means, what match is, to the college. Not just within your hs.

Because if chosen, it’s you, your app. Not just a routine number from your school.

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Thank you all for responding. There is another girl in my hs who also applies to Yale. I think she is a stronger student, better than me. But I will do my best so that I do not regret I give up the chance.

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Your first set of competitors is everyone in your first reader’s pile (SCEA or RD). The athlete is already in another pile. The AO’s (26) are assigned to various geographically based regions who will comprise roughly the same number of applicants to even out the work. So your initial competition is every applicant from your town, city, county(ies), state, whatever geographic region Yale places you. Now, the other high achievers in your school will be direct comparables, so maybe the competition here will be a bit more direct, but if more than 1 of you is superior to everyone else in your region, you all will likely advance. If none of you are at the top of the pile, none will advance. You can only submit what you can, and you can’t worry about other applicants from your school. There are so many different factors, many subjective and dependent on the AO and where he/she thinks you fit in the overall class puzzle, that it is hard to handicap yourself vs classmates unless there is a huge disparity in grades and test scores.

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Thank you very much for the insight. There is no huge disparity in grades/test scores. I certainly will try my best.