<p>Does anybody have stats on EA applicants from last year. I know how that about 20% were accepted, but how many were deferred and how many rejected? Also, of the deferred applicants, how many were accepted RD?</p>
<p>How about looking at the sticky "Admissions Statistics"?</p>
<p>Harvard admission statistics Class of 2009 vs. Class of 2008</p>
<p>Total apps: 22,796 (09) - 19,752 (08)
SCEA apps: 4,214 (09) - 3,889 (08)
RD apps: 18,501 (09) - 15,801 (08)
Total admits: 2,102 (09) - 2,110 (08)
Total admit rate: 9.2% (09) - 10.7% (08)
SCEA admits: 892 (09) - 902 (08)
SCEA admit rate: 21.2% (09) - 23.2% (08)
SCEA applicants deferred: 3,187 (09) - 2,788 (08)
Deferred SCEA applicants admitted RD: 94 (09) - est. 134 (08)
RD admits: 1,210 (09) - 1,208 (08)
RD admit rate: 6.5% (09) - 7.6% (08)
Total enrolled: 1,640 (09) - 1,638 (08)
Total yield: 78% (09) - 77.6% (08)
SCEA enrolled: 819 (09) - 819 (08)
SCEA yield: 91.8% (09) - 90.8% (08)
RD enrolled: 821 (09) - 819 (08)
RD yield: 67.9% (09) - 67.9% (08)
Estimated waitlist admits: 23 (09) - 81 (08)</p>
<p>Percentage M/F: 50-50 (09) - 50-50 (08)
Percentage Public/Private: 66-34 (09) - 65-35 (08)
Foreign citizens: 13% (09) - 12.8% (08
African American: 9.3% (09) - 8.9% (08)
Hispanic: 7.3% (09) - 8.9% (08)
Paid in scholarships: $76.2 million (09) - $72.8 million (08)</p>
<p>Wow, so if I'm deferred EA, I have really no chance unless something significant happens. Depressing. As is my post on the U mich site.</p>
<p>I believe the odds will rise this year, for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>Why do you think so, Byerly?</p>
<p>I think I'm going to need a very significant rise for me to have a chance. So, what does it take to be SCEA defer and get admitted RD? Win Intel science fair or something? And another question, Byerly? Do you think that the kids on this site are of a higher average "quality" than the general admissions pool?</p>
<p>maguo1: I was deferred EA and accepted RD. Honestly, I don't know what got me in. I don't have any int'l or nat'l awards or anything. I wasn't valedictorian of my class. In the end, it is the luck of the draw.</p>
<p>I assume that most "regulars" on this site are admissions-obsessed high achievers, not "typical" high school seniors!</p>
<p>This is a significant difference between Harvard and Yale admissions. Yale will admit EA deferreds at almost the same rate as original EA round, and significantly higher rate than RD candidates.</p>
<p>That was certainly true for '08; we'll have to see whether it is also true for '09 and '10.</p>
<p>Arguably, the "true" EA/SCEA/ED admit rate is the combined admit rate for all those starting in the early pool - including deferreds who eventually are admitted in April.</p>
<p>It may differ from year to year, depending upon the relative strength of the RD pools and upon other institutional goals such as attaining economic diversity.</p>
<p>Less than 3% of SCEA got in after being deferred. Ouch.</p>
<p>How many were waitlisted? I only see figures for waitlisted admits.</p>
<p>I found it very surprising that they release deferred acceptance rates. Joker123: Finding a person here who was waitlisted is very small. I have a friend here who was waitlisted and he is from Utah.</p>
<p>I know someone who was waitlisted from my school in TX last year. She ended up at UT Austin.</p>
<p>I have a friend who also got waitlisted; he went to Wash U (st louis)</p>
<p>Yale is much more likely to reject EA applicants and then accept a large percentage of the deferred. Harvard is more likely to defer a large number and then take very few (feel good deferrals?). They both end up at 49% of the class being from EA apps.</p>
<p>What you say is only partially true. </p>
<p>Its not the number of deferrals that is particularly significant, but the number of initially deferred applicants who are later admitted.</p>
<p>My point is that schools are misleading us a bit when they emphasize that they take "only" a magic 49% from the early pool when, in fact, a not inconsiderable fraction of the alleged RD admits are actually deferred early applicants. (94 at Harvard; 249 at the smaller Yale; an unknown number at Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Stanford etc. recently.)</p>
<p>Such applicants have already sent a strong signal that the school in question is their #1 choice, and can be expected to matriculate at a relatively high rate if admitted. Certainly a yield booster.</p>
<p>Byerly, on the Parents Forum, there is a discussion of the merits of ED going on (see "changing your mind after ED acceptance", and someone said that the difference in acceptance rates between EA/ED and RD could be accounted for by greater numbers of legacies, athletic recruits, developemental admits, etc. I thought that this has been looked at, controllling for these factors, and a poster disputed the possibility of controlling for them. Can you supply the data where these factors are shown NOT to account for the vast difference in acceptance rates? Help!</p>
<p>I'll look into it.</p>