<p>Is it harder to get into Yale EA?</p>
<p>is there a thread from last year like the "official RD thread" except the official EAthread? so we can see the differences from EA to RD</p>
<p>Yes, that the whole reason why applying early is available.</p>
<p>Why would anyone apply EA if it's harder to get in that way?</p>
<p>what...i'm confused</p>
<p>It's easier to get in EA. You will hear people say it's bc the early pool is stronger, but I doubt it's that much stronger. I think (not exactly sure) that the early admit rate is something like 23 % and the regular rate is about 6%. most of the yale class is made up of EA admits</p>
<p>Early admit rate is ~16-17%, regular rate is about 9%, overall about 10%</p>
<p>There is a thread I made of EA deferees/rejects of where we finally are going to college. Just search a bit back for it</p>
<p>Note that a substantial number of the RD admits are, in fact, deferred EA applicants. This is true not only at Yale, but also at Harvard.</p>
<p>there are also weaker applicants in the EA pool, hence, there is an advantage too it also.</p>
<p>also, yale fill nearly 50% of its class with ea applicants</p>
<p>whats the difference between EA and RD?</p>
<p>EA stands for Early Action. You send in your application by November 1, and you get a reply by December 15 (accept, reject, defer). If you're deferred, then you'll hear their final reply on the Regular Decision date, which is April 1.
RD stands for Regular Decision. You send in your application by January 1, and you get a reply by April 1 (accept, reject, waitlist). If you've been waitlisted, you've been rejected politely; very, very few people get off the waitlist, and, depending on the year, some schools will take nobody from the waitlist.
With EA and RD, your final reply date is May 1.</p>
<p>Yale, Harvard, and some other schools practice what is called SCEA, or Single Choice Early Action. With SCEA, you can apply early to only one school. University of Chicago and MIT, among many others, practice the regular EA, where you can apply to multiple schools under early action.</p>