<p>I realize either school is a huge reach for me, but I think I've decided to apply early action to one of them. My question is, which one is gives you a bigger advantage applying early action? Is there really any difference?</p>
<p>I dunno which one gives you a better chance but I've heard Yale ED is like 18% and RD is 9%...</p>
<p>I'd go with Yale just cause it's cooler.</p>
<p>I'd go with Yale cause its less hilly.
B-sides if you want to get rejected, its best to atleast have some integrity.</p>
<p>lmao wow that was harsh...sure to get some comments</p>
<p>I went to stanford and it was all like up and down and up and down, i felt like I was gonna barf! My legs had to work too hard. </p>
<p>(yay 600 posts)</p>
<p>hahahahaha rookie</p>
<p>yale RD admissions rate for last year was 5.8%. EA was 17%. (i got this from an article in the yale daily news)</p>
<p>Yeah, We started at the same time and your like a senior member away from me. </p>
<p>BTW I went to a PU Yale basketball game b4 I knew what colleges were, and it was at P-ton and they had these 5 shirtless guys who had Yale on the front with the y taking up 2 people and sucks on thier backs. Forever the term "Yale sucks" was imbeded in my mind, and for that reason I won't apply.</p>
<p>lol miken that's cuz you have more of a life than me...but i make most of my posts at work :D</p>
<p>I can't believe you wouldn't apply to Yale b/c of something those kids from Princeton had on their flabby bodies. I'm thinking of going to Yale for law...which reminds me, I need to go create a thread to learn something. </p>
<p>Everyone look out! I figured out how to do all the smilies.</p>
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<p>It's too hot in Stanford, so I'd choose Yale.</p>
<p>mike: LOL, thats gotta be the stupidest reason I've ever heard</p>
<p>You know what's even weirder...all of these ppl are saying "Yale Yale Yale" over Stanford and yet in the #1 Dream School thread Yale has like 2 votes and Stanford is kicking asss in 1st place. </p>
<p>I've never been able to get over the Mexican architecture myself. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Stanford is prettier.</p>
<p>Actually Yale is tailored even more toward EA. Fully half the class comes from EA pool. Not only are 18% taken in the EA round, of those deferred to RD, 13-15% are taken. In other words, your chances as a deferred are almost the same as if you were taken EA.</p>
<p>Like bandit_TX says, Yale tends to accept more applicants overall from the EA pool. Stanford has a 17% EA acceptance rate, but its rejection rate is around 60%. They don't like to defer. Their RD acceptance rate is around 7%, but the EA deferred acceptance rate is only a little bit higher than that (I think around 10%?). Stanford remains adamant to making the majority of their offers during RD, so Yale would probably be a bit more advantageous EA. They only reject around 33% EA, and if you're deferred you still have more than double the chance of being accepted than an RD applicant.</p>
<p>Yale is your best chance.</p>
<p>How do you guys know the stats for EA candidates that are deferred? I've never seen anything like that posted before. </p>
<p>I wouldn't try to game the system as much as apply to the one that you like better. Being able to come across as a more natural fit is much more likely going to get you into either school than knowing that Yale is 5% RD and Stanford is 7% RD and making your decision based on that. At that level, it's an insignificant difference anyway.</p>
<p>i don't think this post will help u cuz half of the ppl say yale and half say stanford.</p>
<p>i would EA to yale...just cuz its an ivy...and if ur essay is really good, ivies tend to accept u more.</p>
<p>Yale is a better chance for you, don't apply to the other place anyways.</p>
<p>Stanford definitely, you'll love the weather. :)</p>