<p>The odds are higher, however remember those stats include the recruited athletes, and highly qualified academic candidates, as well as the well-hooked (legacy, URM, development case). For an “average” ivy applicant, there is not much of an advantage.</p>
<p>Yes, the October SAT was accepted for the SCEA deadline previously.</p>
<p>Good luck for S2, class of 2016! It will be interesting to compare admissions/applications numbers from this year to next year…</p>
<p>what this does is change the landscape at other schools. Yale and stanford SCEA will more likely attract students who truly prefer those schools over H & P; it may diminish their early application numbers. RD may look different at peer institutions and others because if accepted at H or P, these applicants may no longer apply to schools like Penn, Brown, WashU, Chicago. more of the most competitive candidates will find seats earlier on and probably pull out of the applicant pool, perhaps making it a bit easier for their peers applying to other schools.</p>
<p>wish this was decided a year ago.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the Washington Post story: [College</a> Inc. - Harvard, Princeton return to early admission](<a href=“http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2011/02/harvard_returns_to_early_actio.html]College”>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2011/02/harvard_returns_to_early_actio.html)</p>
<p>Personally, I never bought into the idea that EA programs disadvantage the disadvantaged. The students in my orbit who are smart enough to go to Harvard (or Princeton) in the first place are also smart enough to figure out how to apply EA. They typically feel that it is patronizing of admission officials to suggest otherwise. (Early Decision, of course, is a different story since there are financial aid concerns in play there.)</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - Princeton to reinstate early admission program](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/85/15K32/index.xml]Princeton”>Princeton to reinstate early admission program)</p>
<p>GRRRR - really harvard and princeton? Really??</p>
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Does that mean they’re finding weaker applications in the pool? I guess this is good for us :)</p>
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Does that mean they’re finding weaker applications in the pool? I guess this is good for us :)</p>
<p>In answer to your question, CAPTRICK, I believe it does. I have a friend who is hooked into a small midwestern LAC and she says the applicant pool this year it not up to par. She has been hearing this from her peers in other LACs, also. Trickle-down effect from the top. </p>
<p>It may also be the crummy economy (that’s another post) that is playing a factor in thsi decision.</p>
<p>I don’t see what is so bad about Harvard and Princeton using SCEA again. Isn’t this a good thing?</p>
<p>people are just sour grapes because they didn’t benefit.</p>
<p>UVA reinstated theirs too (for next year as well).</p>
<p>What is the advantage in applying EA to Harvard?</p>
<p>chaospaladin, yes, that’s what’s being said. it may make the application process to the most selective schools more sane. the kids admitted to these SCEA schools won’t be flooding the market w/ their applications to other top 20 schools. they’ll be one and done, or at most they’ll only apply to the other SCEA schools and perhaps MIT, Caltech if they’re science folks. but hopefully everyone will apply SCEA because the school is actually their first choice; the present application strategy will no longer be necessary. how many times have i read on CC that a kid applied to and was accepted to Y SCEA but would prefer H.</p>
<p>About a year too late.</p>
<p>Far too late, I’m afraid. We all know the world is ending in 2012 so what’s the point?</p>
<p>Harvard - SCEA
Princeton - SCEA</p>
<p>Harvard is gonna get a huge jump in applications next year…again
This is so surprising</p>
<p>I think Harvard saw Columbia as a threat with its 9k app increase</p>
<p>Pton is SCEA
"Princeton University will reinstate an early admission program, beginning next year with the class that will enter Princeton in September 2012. The single-choice early action program will require applicants to apply early only to Princeton, but will not require them to decide whether to accept Princeton’s offer until the end of the regular admission process.</p>
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<p>I wish this had happened earlier, not so I could’ve apply to Harvard but so I could have seriously considered Yale or Princeton SCEA (though I do love UChicago). I think the SCEA benefit at YPS will become noticeable with the Harvard fans out of the running. </p>
<p>It’ll be interesting to watch the game change next year.</p>
<p>Is it likely that any other schools will adopt an ea program?</p>