<p>eeeexcellent. </p>
<p>^^ Divide 750 by 5257.</p>
<p>What I meant was that that’s just a rough estimate…because they may accept fewer than or more than 750 applications. </p>
<p>How many of those admits, roughly, are legacies or athletic recruits? And does Yale give out likely letters for SCEA?</p>
<p>I saw somewhere on CC saying that there are usually around 220 athletic recruits.</p>
<p>Oh God, that’s nearly 30 percent of the admit pool…that is so scary. Surely, they don’t have a need for that many athletes, do they?</p>
<p>^That many atheletes??
What do they do with them? Surely there cannot be enough teams to fit them all!</p>
<p>I can’t really verify the data but I think it’s better to exaggerate the figure so that all of us can be better mentally prepared. </p>
<p>Also, the reality is harsh no matter whether there are 50 athletic recruits or 250.</p>
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Why would they be worried?</p>
<p>happysunnyshine- True that. Agreed wholeheartedly. I’m considering myself rejected. It helps to concentrate on other applications too- specially since the best odds are I’ll be needing to send them in december.</p>
<p>Harambee- Did you read that article? If you had, then you would have seen the exponential rise in the number of REA apps.</p>
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Is an increased number of applicants supposed to worry all Stanford REAers? Obviously, the acceptance rate is going to be lower with more applicants, but I don’t think it neccesarily means an applicant should be worried. It’s almost expected that the number is going to rise each year. A former Stanford dean of admisions recently said that: “I couldn’t pick a better class out of 30,000 applicants than out of 15,000…I’d just end up rejecting multiples of the same kid.”</p>
<p>The article specifically says “vying for about 750 spots.” So I would guess something like 14.3%. In another article, which came out quite some time before, said it would be 700~750, so I would say the actual rate would be between 13~14%</p>
<p>Now we shall see what happens :)</p>
<p>I really want to get the decision quick! I have to know how my life will proceed.</p>
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I would have agreed to that had the rise been just high shooting individuals who had very less chances of getting in anyway. But when the rise is due to the Harvard and Princeton applicants migrating toward their next best Early options that allow them to keep RD open too, in other words Stanford and Yale, this implies a considerable surge in the number of applicants who are very well qualified to get in. It leads to more number of qualified applicants getting deferred, more getting rejected because there just isn’t enough space to accomodate them all.</p>
<p>It’s really sad that some people just throw applications at these places without <em>really</em> wanting to go.</p>
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I understand your broader point, but I don’t think the recent rise is due to Harvard and Princeton applicants cancelling their early programs. Harvard and Princeton cancelled their ED program about four years ago, and Stanford/Yale switched to SCEA before that, so I suppose it’s reasonable to expect that whatever migration took place would have finished by now. Also, consider that the next best early option isn’t neccesarily just Stanford/Yale, it could be UChicago, MIT, Duke, and other top privates with early programs. I’m not denying that there’s been an increase in ‘qualified’ early apps to Stanford/Yale, but I don’t think that it’s because of the reason you mentioned, at least not now.</p>
<p>^^ Well, they’re aiming for competitive colleges. They’re keeping their options open because there’s no guarantee that they’d get into the college(s) that they would truly want to go to. Isn’t that the whole point of finding a range of reach, match, and safety schools?</p>
<p>Harambee- Hmm. I accept your point of view. I wonder why the sudden huge increase then? Everyone can’t have gotten a confidence boost all of a sudden!</p>
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I think early apps are increasing mainly because there’s more applicants due to an increasing population and because of the uncertainty of the economy, which makes having a college education even more valuable. Also, with the common application, it’s a lot easier to apply to mores schools. At Stanford, I think apps may have increased slightly more because some have been dissatisfied with the UC system, though that’s just my guess. At Yale, I think the death of the Yale student may have led to decreased apps (as someone else pointed out), but I think apps will increase within a few years. At Duke, which faced a highly publicized scandal a few years ago, applications dropped by ~1% the year after the scandal, but in 2009 they had a record number of applications (32% increase for ED), so who knows?</p>
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I agree with you, but I don’t think that Harvard and Princeton’s discontinuation of early programs have anything to do with that at this point.</p>
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<p>It’s not as if that effect will suddenly die out…</p>
<p>If Harvard/Princeton have an increase in RD apps (which they definitely could) then that also means that many of those students might apply to Stanford REA, resulting in an increase at Stanford REA.</p>
<p>I’m not attributing the increase just to that (it begs the question of what happened to Yale’s). However, there’s no reason the no-ED at harvard/princeton effect has to die out any time soon.</p>
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I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Whatever impact that effect had would be almost neglibible after close to five years IMO. </p>
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What you’re describing doesn’t just apply to Stanford REA. It could apply to a lot of other colleges with a non-binding early program.</p>
<p>Oh, goodie. I’m so glad the apps didn’t exponentially increase… though I understand that’s not an indication of the applicant pool’s strength.</p>
<p>aflksdjlaksjglkgjalkg.</p>
<p>^
How I feel.</p>
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<p>Each year brings in a new pool of applicants. Every student who would’ve applied ED to Harvard/Princeton is now a potential REA applicant to Stanford.</p>
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<p>I agree it doesn’t just apply to Stanford, but it is a good option for a lot of HP applicants. As for Yale, I’m still confused as to why it did not increase.</p>