<p>I love many things about both schools. I can't decide.
Harvard- I love Boston much better than New Haven.</p>
<p>Yale- I get the impression that the undergrad focus is much much more at Yale than Harvard.</p>
<p>SCEA slightly increase your chances. Since our regional officer said that yale accepted double the number of students of the national average from our state last year , and Harvard's acceptance rate from our region was half of the national average, I am leaning towards Yale. </p>
<p>What should I do? Also do the schools talk to each other after the SCEA has been sent in???
Any opinions or advice? Please?</p>
<p>Junior: Everyone on this board will have a different opinion about what you should do, but ONLY YOU know which school will be the better ‘fit’. As trite as it sounds, make the decision with your gut, not what other people tell you to do.</p>
<p>They certainly do, at least enough that you will not get away with applying to both SCEA.</p>
<p>Yale is not “much much more” undergraduate-focused than Harvard is; I don’t think there is, to be honest, all that much difference between the two as wholes that isn’t hair-splitting. (At the level of departments, if you know your major, or main extracurricular, if you know that either, there are sometime significant differences.) However, if you have visited both schools and feel that Yale is so much more undergraduate-y, go to Yale. When I visited Princeton junior year, I was like, Oh my God, this is terrible and atrocious. Still don’t really know why. Is Princeton terrible and atrocious? Of course not, but if I felt that way and went there, I would not have been happy. I get that you’re more ambivalent than I was, but confirmation bias is a powerful force…I, at least, would’ve seized on the flaws to be like “see! I was right!” If you haven’t visited both schools and can manage to do that, that would probably help And you can always apply to the other regular.</p>
<p>ask yourself
scenario A: you apply and get acceted SCEA to Yale. Do you still apply to Harvard?
scenario B: you apply and get rejected SCEA to Yale. Do you still apply to Harvard?
scenario C: you apply and get deferred SCEA to Yale. Do you still apply to Harvard?
scenario D: you apply and get acceted SCEA to Harvard. Do you still apply to Yale?
scenario E: you apply and get rejected SCEA to Harvard. Do you still apply to Yale?
scenario F: you apply and get deferred SCEA to Harvard. Do you still apply to Yale?</p>
<h1>If the answer is yes to all of them, then who cares? If there are NOs in your answer then that tells you something.</h1>
<p>BTW: Your high school’s guidance office would probably get black listed by both colleges if they sent in more than one SCEA SSR form – hence many kids think of doing it, but it rarely happens.</p>
And you can always apply to the other regular.</p>