I think your son has qualifications that amply justify having highly selective schools as part of his strategy, and applying SCEA to Yale can certainly be part of it. He needs to have reaches, matches, and safeties, like everybody else, but I would suggest that he might want to have more than 1 or 2 reaches, because he is the kind of applicant who might get into one or two high reaches–but it’s hard to predict which ones. I would suggest that he look at Rice, as others have suggested, but perhaps also Wesleyan, Brown, maybe Penn and Duke.