<p>If you're considering applying SCEA to Yale next year, you may be helped out by checking out the analysis I recently conducted of the admissions results from last year. </p>
<p>Here's the final post of the series, containing an overall impression.</p>
<p>If youre hookless and want to get accepted SCEA to Yale next year, you are going to need outstanding stats (as well as exceptional subjective elements, but thats not what this analysis is about). The data indicate that only three of the 32 unhooked applicants had SAT 1 scores below 2310. The lowest score of any white or Asian applicant who was accepted was 2270. Furthermore, none of the unhooked applicants were accepted without having at least a 3.90 unweighted GPA. The majority of those accepted early without a hook had a 4.0 GPA and an SAT 1 score of at least 2350. </p>
<p>If you arent hooked and dont have at least a 2200 on the Subject Tests, a 2250+ on the SAT 1, and a 3.90+ GPA, your early admission application might be better spent on schools that are not as competitive.</p>
<p>would a 3.82 for an unhooked (ORM) be too low, even with an “excuse”? i moved sophomore year and there was a considerable drop in my grades (3 B’s, 2 A’s in academic classes all that year). however, since then, there has been a significant upward trend with increasing upward course difficulty, and my grades are back to all A’s.</p>
<p>and for those who probably lost a lot of home from the post above… there’s still hope!!</p>
<p>“Can similar conclusions be drawn from Stanford SCEA?”</p>
<p>I haven’t done a complete analysis, but from what I know Stanford uses very different policies during SCEA. They reject many more than Yale and defer fewer. </p>
<p>I haven’t established any baseline SAT scores for Stanford yet.</p>
<p>“ORM with 2220 and 3.9, post #219: Official Yale 2013 SCEA Results Thread”</p>
<p>This applicant’s ACT score was higher and I equivalenced that to yield the 2270, which was the previously referenced lowest score of an unhooked applicant accepted early.</p>
<p>Lol I’d say I’m on the borderline with a 4.0 UW and 2310 as an ORM. Hopefully I can get those subject tests at least at 2300+. My only slight tip might be that I’m am trying to pursue math, which is less common at Yale.</p>
<p>It’s important to keep in mind that, even though a 2350+ and 4.0 was most common for early acceptances, that the majority with those stats were deferred. I was attempting to establish a baseline.</p>
<p>Your scores gives you a good shot early, but it then comes down to your ECs (and the other subjective elements) to determine whether you will be accepted.</p>
<p>Caution! This data is derived from CC. It’s a skewed pool. I’m curious how many people with grades above those cutoffs were deferred and rejected. </p>
<p>And i know plenty of undergrads at yale who had grades and scores below 2300 and 4.0.</p>
<p>The data are solely for SCEA. Some were deferred and later accepted. This is unlike the Yale undergraduate population, which is made up of both early and regularly admitted students.</p>
<p>The pool is certainly self-selected, but that doesn’t mean it is meaningfully skewed. It is intended to establish an approximate baseline and to lead to more informed decisions about whether to apply early. </p>
<p>“I’m curious how many people with grades above those cutoffs were deferred and rejected.”</p>
<p>If you continue to the page linked to on post number one, the full data is there. I have sorted out all 148 of the applicants who posted on the original thread and sorted them by race. It does not, however, convey who was accepted after being deferred because many who posted on the SCEA did not follow up.</p>
<p>Statistics and quantitive analysis (is this even what this is?) are really weak for me, so I’m drawing conclusions based on YOUR conclusions. Would you say that SCEA is, as rumored, friendly toward minorities based on what you know statistically and what you have experienced?</p>
<p>I’m uncomfortable making any broad conclusions about minorities SCEA given the relatively small sample size for minorities. With that said, half of the sixteen minority applicants who were included in the sample were accepted, which is a much higher rate than that for non-URMs.</p>
<p>I’d have to know some of the subjective elements of your application to give an informed response.</p>
<p>Your stats aren’t completely out of the range of those accepted SCEA, but the vast majority had a higher SAT score than that. If your ECs are amazing, then I’d say apply early. If they aren’t great, then it depends on whether there are any other schools you want to apply early to.</p>
<p>If Yale is the only school you want to attend that offers early admission, there’s no reason not to apply SCEA. However, if this isn’t the case and you aren’t a truly exceptional applicant, you may want to apply early to the other schools you’re interested in that offer such programs.</p>
<p>If you’re hoping to get a slight advantage in terms of ease of admission by applying SCEA, you won’t. Unlike some early decision programs, Yale does not seem to give any admission advantage to those applying early. In contrast, the applicants accepted early are, overall, of a markedly higher (numerical) quality than those accepted RD.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think I’m going to go for it just because it’s my favorite school and there’s no reason not to, though I’m fully expecting to be rejected. </p>
<p>As far as subjective components go, I’m editor-in-chief of the paper, 4 year varsity soccer, political work, involved in some clubs at school, assorted community service…so decent but definitely not outstanding. I know I’ll have an amazing teacher recommendation (she’s only writing one for my whole year!) and probably decent essays. But I’m pretty sure I’m going for it. There’s nowhere I’m comfortably applying ED to and no schools I really want to apply EA to.</p>
<p>^^^ I’ve got very similar stats (3.9 UW GPA, 2300 SAT) and very similar subjective elements (Editor-in-chief of the paper, varsity baseball Head of Political Action Club, etc. etc.) so…</p>
<p>Even though a thread like this are somewhat of a deterrent, if you’re going to go for it, I am :)</p>
<p>I’m also biracial (half black), so, as abhorrent as it is to say this, that might help.</p>