early action?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>how much does early action help? according to us new and world report it helps to apply early, but isnt the applicant pool much much stronger?</p>

<p>Do you think applying SCEA helps cover up a couple minor blips?</p>

<p>THANKS</p>

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<p>There is no advantage in applying SCEA. Where does US News and World Report claim otherwise?</p>

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<p>i meant for yale specifically since this is the yale zone.</p>

<p>[Colleges</a> Where Applying Early Action Helps - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/09/30/colleges-where-applying-early-action-helps.html]Colleges”>http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2009/09/30/colleges-where-applying-early-action-helps.html)</p>

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<p>As did I.</p>

<p>US News and World Report is foolishly equating higher acceptance rate with lower selectivity. Yale itself says that getting in early is more difficult.</p>

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<p>I think EA has it’s advantages. We felt that the RD pool was so large (20,000?) that the best route was the smaller EA pool. We just thought our son would get his best exposure there. Another view is that Yale is going to accept less than 2000 students. After EA, it will be less than 1300. So as the number of available slots are reduced more and more quailified students are trying for less and less spots. someone could not get in just because of the numbers(more qualified students than availabel slots).</p>

<p>But as Silverturtle said, the higher acceptance rate doesn’t make it easier. He does know what he is taking about as I see his informative posts here on CC. </p>

<p>You still must be a solid candidate in October and not needing the senior activities, grades or SAT’s to add to your application.</p>

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<p>The way Yale approaches SCEA is that they’ll only accept someone if they’re sure they would accept them in the regular decision round. So, they defer most of their students and only accept those who would be competitive applicants against 20,000 vs. just 5000. They also say their most (or some of the most) competitive applicants apply SCEA, so that’s why the acceptance rate is higher.</p>