<p>^ that’s interesting to know, HP.</p>
<p>there are 50 pledgers on the Yale SCEA pledge thread against only 35 on the harvard equivalent thread. If this is an indication of the number of applicants then there should be only around 3-3.5k SCEA applicants at Harvard</p>
<p>There are 182 legacy students in 2015 class. Not sure if all of them were admitted SCEA. Unknown how many legacy admits declined.</p>
<p>^Also interesting.
I don’t think all legacies are necessarily accepted EA -
seems if that were the case, Yale would just be asking for arguments about legacy benefits.</p>
<p>AleaJactaEst- Not necessarily so. Princeton has 29 pledged SCEA and 3547 applying. We right now have 50 and 4310 applying. I think a lot of this has to do with Yale’s pledge being more organized and it has been done for many years. We also have it stickied at the top of the page so people notice it unlike other colleges where it falls to the second page at times.</p>
<p>@AleaJactaEst For an even starker differential, look at the ratio of Columbia’s pledgers to their application numbers.</p>
<p>you both are right. I am just passing time until harvard releases its numbers and, more important, until dec 15!</p>
<p>Harvard SCEA 4245</p>
<p>I’m sure H Admissions is not happy with that number.</p>
<p>They didn’t announce how many they will admit in EA.</p>
<p>I asked a counselor during a presentation late October about expected number of admits and she said even the dean of admissions was not sure.</p>
<p>So we have, as I understand it:</p>
<p>Harvard: 4245
Yale: 4310
Princeton: 3,547
Stanford: 5,880
MIT: 6,102 </p>
<p>To me, that seems about “right.” I would expect Stanford to drop less than Yale did, because S probably has a more different pool. I suppose Harvard might be annoyed that they didn’t get more than Yale, but they are remarkably close.</p>
<p>Interesting how many early applications Stanford got, despite the fact that H and P re-entered the SCEA fray. It’s a reflection, I suspect, of just how West-coast-centric Stanford’s student population is. A full 40% of S undergrads are from California, I think.</p>
<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | Harvard College Receives 4,245 Early Applications](<a href=“Harvard College Receives 4,245 Early Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson”>Harvard College Receives 4,245 Early Applications | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Stanford’s EA applications barely dropped - by 129, if my math is correct
I agree with you wjb, that this is probably due to the west coast-centric pool</p>
<p>I’m surprised Harvard got as few as it did…
Are most people going for RD, since they figured everyone (else) would apply SCEA?
I don’t understand it.</p>
<p>They all applied to Chicago instead of SCEA.</p>
<p>It seems that every school will accept 750 students for the early round. Harvard could reduce its number from 875 of class of 2011 to 750 for class of 2016. The early admit rate could be:</p>
<p>Stanford: 750/5880 = 12.7%
Yale: 750/4310 = 17.4%
Harvard: 750/4245 = 17.6%
Princeton: 750/3547=21.1%</p>
<p>I think 750 is too big a # for Princeton … with a freshman class of only 1300 and this being the first year of SCEA.</p>
<p>A helpful chart would include SCEA applicant #s, size of freshman class and maybe yield guess/history</p>
<p>@ewho, why the relatively significant drop in the # of Harvard acceptances?</p>
<p>^ in the past few years Stanford and Yale accepted about 750 each year, so I don’t think Harvard wants to accept more to raise its early admit rate too much. Princeton needs to raise its yield, and it is better to accept the same number of students.</p>
<p>Most likely Stanford will accept 750 from this high yield early pool as they did last year, since not much has changed for them.</p>