<p>End for EA. when does Yale disclose the number of applications received?</p>
<p>There will probably be an article in the Yale Daily News as soon as they know. I read it every day and will post.</p>
<p>That should be interesting. I am expecting Stanford and Yale to be innundated this year, probably Yale more so since it has more overlap with Harvard and Princeton by way of applicant pool.</p>
<p>How much do you guys think that will hurt EA applicants?</p>
<p>Quite a bit probably. But then again they probably know that a bunch of people doing SCEA Yale actually have Harvard and Princeton as their first choice, so maybe they'll accept more to even it out?</p>
<p>Thats what I'm hoping at least. </p>
<p>And does anyone know around when last year they disclosed the number of apps recieved?</p>
<p>Actually, akiirah, I don't think either Stanford or Yale will increase the number of admits in EA, because that could leave insufficient room in the class for RD applicants, and being residential colleges, they can't afford to admit too many. And they won't want a black eye on the PR side for admitting the an unusually large number early. It's a really tough situation for them - their usual yield curves are not going to be very helpful. They will need to do a lot more granular analysis on acceptance patterns possibly even by school, and a lot more guesswork, and I am guessing this year they will have to be more conservative on admissions and use the waitlist more. But this is just my guess.</p>
<p>^^^ that's not good for us... why couldn't harvard and princeton have kept ea for just one more year?</p>
<p>i expect yale will really be looking for students who have shown why they really like yale (as opposed to h or p), as this is evidence that they will enroll if accepted. any thoughts?</p>
<p>My guess is that the number of applicants will be around 6000-7000 (Not a SOARING number of applicants as many say) bc some will go to stanford or some will choose "safer" paths to ED schools. Well, as for the number of acceptances....I am guessing only a slight increase?????</p>
<p>bmwdan, there is a direct quote from the yale admissions dean in a recent book, where he says that desire to attend yale (real or simulated) is not a factor in admissions. He was extremely emphatic about it, and had good reasons for their stance. </p>
<p>This isn't true of all highly selective colleges - the small liberal arts colleges do look at demonstrated interest, but Yale was among several of the top private universities emphasizing it's not a factor - one of them said they don't want to second guess applicants, and added they've seen plenty of applicants who have claimed they would crawl over broken glass to come :) and then didn't, so they just don't trust expressed or apparent or demonstrated interest. (I think it was the Yale dean who made that specific comment, but I'm not sure.)</p>
<p>I talked to a Yale regional admissions officer, and he said that students who have a special reason for wanting to go to Yale should show it in their application somewhere other than just the "why Yale". I spent four weeks at Yale last summer, so one of my essays was about that experience.</p>
<p>Argh. If I attended the Harvard SSP as a rising junior, do you think that would count against me?</p>
<p>Like, they might think Harvard is my number one (it isn't), and I'm only doing Yale because Harvard got rid of early. =(</p>
<p>My D attended Stanford in the summer. Then she fell in love with Yale on a visit. No need to explain falling out of love with S. I think choosing Y after spending time at S, B, H, M and so on speaks for itself. You know what you want.</p>
<p>akiiriah: you're reading too much into your H experience. Don't worry about it. If admitted, Yale will just require you to burn all your shoes that ever were in Cambridge -- LOL. Good luck to you</p>
<p>My son spent 2 summers at Brown and was accepted to Yale.</p>
<p>It may be that Yale will look for signs that the student is likely to enroll at Yale...legacy status, for example. It might be especially hard for Harvard and Stanford legacies to get into Yale SCEA--in the past, Yale knew that all of the students applying early weren't applying early to Harvard or Stanford.</p>
<p>^ You mean Harvard and Princeton? As in, Yale will look at applicants who had parents at Harvard/Princeton and think, this person is probably applying to Harvard/Princeton regular as first choice.</p>
<p>"It might be especially hard for Harvard and Stanford legacies to get into Yale SCEA--in the past, Yale knew that all of the students applying early weren't applying early to Harvard or Stanford."</p>
<p>That's still true for Stanford - they still have EA, and, like Yale's it is SCEA. The real wild cards are Harvard and Princeton</p>
<p>D'oh! I meant Princeton.</p>