<p>I heard that if you get accepted into Yale early action, Harvard is likely to not accept you RD because a) they either ask you where/if you got in early action anywhere and b) they somehow know you already applied early to Yale...?</p>
<p>Just wondering if there's any truth to this. Stats apparently say that your chances of being accepted RD into Harvard are lower if you've been accepted EA to Yale.</p>
<p>It’s a myth. They don’t ask, and they don’t know.</p>
<p>I know a handful of people accepted SCEA to Yale who then applied to Harvard/Princeton and ultimately enrolled at one of those schools.</p>
<p>What you described is against the rules, at least the sharing of EA acceptances among schools. However, Princeton stole the EA admit files from another school (Yale, I think) awhile back, so these people can’t always be trusted.</p>
<p>Harvard says they don’t care about demonstrated interest, though. I think Harvard would be less likely to hold it against you for getting in EA somewhere else than other top schools would. </p>
<p>Still, I think it’s a lousy question to ask. It’s really none of their business.</p>
<p>Harvard asks alum interviewers not to ask where else applicants have applied. Some alum interviewers ask anyway, but that’s because they either are curious or haven’t read what Harvard asks its interviewers to do.</p>
<p>BS. I got in early, said so during the interview, and still got accepted. All five of my closest friends also got into Yale, most through EA. So no.</p>
<p>A few years back my daughter was asked by a Yale interviewer if she was accepted anywhere early. At that time Harvard had Early Action. I believe that Yale was Early Decision at the time. My child thought it odd that the interviewer would ask this question but answered honestly, stating that both Harvard and MIT accepted her EA. Needless to say Yale was the only school to which she was not accepted.</p>
<p>“Needless to say”, tommyrot. Harvard and Yale are both like George Clooney or Brad Pitt. If there’s someone they want (woman or man) they expect to get her (or him). They don’t care if she (or he) already has a boyfriend (or . . . you know). They are better than the current boyfriend, and they know it. Even if the current boyfriend is the other one of them. It isn’t in the institutional genes to back off anyone for fear of competition.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have seen numerous Yale EA people accepted RD at Harvard, and vice versa when Harvard had EA. To a large extent, the two colleges are looking for the same people, so it’s really not surprising that there should be a fairly high number of cross-admits.</p>
<p>haha love the analogy JHS 
thanks for all the responses everyone!</p>