First approximation on numer of SCEA applicants

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<p>Early action apps up four percent at Stanford for the Class of 2014
Early</a> action apps up four percent</p>

<p>This year, 5,583 students applied to Stanford University during the restrictive early action round, representing an approximate four percent increase from the previous year.</p>

<p>This number is expected to climb higher as the Office of Undergraduate Admission receives the last of its international applications.</p>

<p>“A few students abroad–where Internet access is spotty–were given permission to apply using a paper application,” explained Director of Admission Shawn Abbott in an e-mail to The Daily. To accommodate for the delay of snail mail, the University allowed these applications to trickle in after the Nov. 1 restrictive early action deadline.</p>

<p>While early applicants may feel the relief of accomplishing a colossal task, the Office of Undergraduate Admission is just gearing up for its busiest period–the office started reading applications last week.</p>

<p>Abbott acknowledged that the greatest challenge for admission officers is the fact that they can only accept 1,700 or so hopefuls for next year’s freshman class, and a consequently smaller number of early applicants.</p>

<p>“As a result, we’re charged with making extraordinarily fine distinctions between perfectly capable, deserving and desirable candidates,” Abbott said. “There simply isn’t enough space in each year’s entering class to admit all of the students we want to admit.</p>

<p>“Processing nearly a quarter of a million credentials–associated with an expected 30,000 or so applications–is a close second, in terms of the challenges that we face,” he added.</p>

<p>At Stanford, the restrictive early action round is intended for students who have decided that Stanford is their first choice. These students will receive their admission decision by mid-December, when they will be admitted, rejected or deferred to the regular decisions round.</p>

<p>Regardless of the deadline differences, Abbott insists the early action and regular decision options share the same standards for assessing applicants.</p>

<p>“As we read applications for admission, readers are guided by several ideas, most notably academic achievement, intellectual vitality, extracurricular impact and the notion of understanding a student’s life circumstances within his or her individual context,” Abbott said.</p>

<p>Furthermore, since restrictive early action is a non-binding option, admitted students will have until May 15 to respond to the University’s offer of admission. This flexibility is especially important as prospective freshmen review financial aid packages from various universities.</p>

<p>Much to the dismay of Stanford hopefuls and admissions officers alike, the application process is not without pitfalls. Last year, almost 1,000 students completed their applications electronically and paid their application fees, but ultimately failed to submit these materials by the deadline. Their applications were not considered.</p>

<p>In an effort to curtail a repeat of this mishap, Abbott cautioned this year’s crop of early applicants to turn in their applications well in advance of the deadline.</p>

<p>Source: Mathacle</a> Blog: Early action apps up four percent at Stanford for the Class of 2014</p>

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<p>It is comforting to know that competition won’t be any tougher than last year % wise, +4% apps barely changes the admit rate. And when you look at S’s history: last year they admitted less bc they overenrolled the 2 years prior. However, last year they underenrolled and had to admit ~200 kids off the waitlist (something they hate doing), so I expect EA admit rate to return to the ~15% that it was 2 years ago, not the ~12% of last year. Essentially, I think that there will be an extra 75 spots open for us that weren’t open last year. :slight_smile: (680->750)</p>

<p>*sorry for the texting speak :smiley: I wrote this to my friend on my phone and then copied it here</p>

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<p>i hopppppeeeee that’s the case!</p>

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<p>true
when you look at the numbers from last several years, last year’s REA numbers were much lower. but then again, given that they had such a large increase in RD applications last year, they might want to leave more spaces for RD this year.
who knows
in the end, they ended up admitting the same number of people last year but their yield was a lot lower.</p>

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<p>and the article is wrong
the reply date is still may 1st according to admissions.</p>

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<p>The yield rate for the class of 2013 was 70 percent, and it has held steady at about 70 percent since 2006, according to the Stanford Daily.</p>

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<p>I think Stanford is going to admit the same number of students that they admitted last year. They actually had housing issues the past couple years do to admitting too many kids (Stanford actually had to rent out apartments just off campus for some kids to stay in which is expensive for the school).</p>

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<p>No, they took 127 from the waitlist.</p>

<p>Yields of the Class of 2013 at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT
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<p>Yield, Admitted, Matriculated , Acceptance Rate, School, Comments
76.5%, 2175, 1663, 7.5%, Harvard, … 127 from the waitlist
69.9%, 2427, 1696, 8%, Stanford, …127 from the waitlist
66.8%, 1958, 1307, 7.5%, Yale, …7 from the waitlist
63.9%, 1675, 1071, 10.7%, MIT, … 78 from the waitlist
58.9%, 2209, 1301, 10.1%, Princeton, …59 from the waitlist
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<p>Yale down 5%.</p>

<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Early applications fall 5 percent](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/11/17/early-applications-fall-5-percent/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/11/17/early-applications-fall-5-percent/)</p>

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<p>Yale is sooooooo last year.</p>

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<p>… and Stanford is apparently soooo this year.</p>

<p>From what I’ve noticed is that most people bring it down to Yale EA or Stanford EA. So these numbers only make sense.</p>

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<p>So UChicago, MIT, CalTech, Notre Dame, and Georgetown are meaningless? I’m pretty sure they all offer REA.</p>

<p>Honestly, I think people are starting to grow weary of Ivies.</p>

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<p>I agree that those REAs are popular, but I’m just talking strictly Yale and Stanford. A lot of people who consider Yale (for some odd reason) seem to also consider Stanford. Quiet a few people end up having to make a decision between the two. I don’t know why. And out of those people most go for Yale because they have a higher deferral rate. Most of my friends who weren’t consider either of the two did go for schools like Notre Dame and Georgetown.
Another bit… Stanford isn’t an Ivy… just saying.</p>

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<p>I know Stanford isn’t an Ivy. What I meant by that statement is that I think prospective college students nowadays are growing more weary of the supposed “stuffiness” of Ivy League schools, as opposed to schools like Stanford and USC. Not saying that’s true or not, but that’s definitely how it is at my high school. No one really wants to go to Dartmouth or Cornell or even Yale, they wanna go to “happening” schools like Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern or other universities that are near large cities.</p>

<p>But this is all one big generalization on my part. :)</p>

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<p>Could you provide the source?</p>

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<p>@KevRus… agreed. I’m hardly applying to any Ivies… way overrated.</p>

<p>@ewho: I heard from an admissions officer that (and I can’t seem to remember the exact number) the defferal rate was somewhere around 30%+ or - a few. Yale is around 50% (47% according to the Yale Daily News : [Yale</a> Daily News - Early admit rate plunges to 13.4 percent](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2008/12/15/early-admit-rate-plunges-to-134-percent/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2008/12/15/early-admit-rate-plunges-to-134-percent/))</p>

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<p>From the Stanford admissions site:</p>

<p>“3 Possible Restrictive Early Action Admission Decisions:
Applicant is admitted and has until May 1 to respond to the admission offer.
Applicant is denied and can not reapply for Regular Decision admission in the same year.
Applicant is deferred to the Regular Decision round, where he/she will receive a final decision by April 1.
Stanford’s philosophy is to make final decisions whenever possible, so the vast majority of Restrictive Early Action applicants receive one of the first two decisions noted above.”</p>

<p>Note the last sentence! While I do not know the statistics, my impression was that last year Yale seemed to defer many more SCEA applicants than Stanford. On a positive note, I also had the impression those who were deferred at Stanford did well in the regular admission pool.</p>

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<p>An admissions officer told me that they shoot for a 15% deferral rate.</p>

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<p>@mamae: what you said makes no sense… sorry. You quoted the following:</p>

<p>“3 Possible Restrictive Early Action Admission Decisions:
Applicant is admitted and has until May 1 to respond to the admission offer.
Applicant is denied and can not reapply for Regular Decision admission in the same year.
Applicant is deferred to the Regular Decision round, where he/she will receive a final decision by April 1.
Stanford’s philosophy is to make final decisions whenever possible, so the vast majority of Restrictive Early Action applicants receive one of the first two decisions noted above”</p>

<p>It says that they they either try to deny or admit students… they avoid deferring. i think you read this incorrectly. </p>

<p>@Starmie: That would make sense. I spoke to the admissions officer two years ago, so I can only assume that as they acceptance rate goes down then so does the rate of people they deffer.</p>

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<p>Whoaness, yours is exactly the point I was trying to make; i.e., Stanford prefers to deny or admit rather than defer. However, they do defer some students, and it seemed to me that many of the students who were deferred last year seemed to fare well (i.e., were admitted) in the regular decision round.</p>