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Even if Stanford/Yale lose many of those applicants, the applicants that they retain would probably want to be at Yale/Stanford more so than the other students. I think colleges would be better served to use SCEA rather than EA. SCEA is almost like ED, except that its not binding. Students who apply SCEA are giving up applying to a lot of other good schools, so I suppose colleges would rather institute that program. SCEA also has a higher yield than EA.</p>