<p>Okay, here's a (hopefully) less offensive interpretation of the SCEA policy: the committee is being very conservative with admissions for applicants from the usually strongly represented states. New York, Maryland, California....these states with high interest in Yale will surely have more applications pouring in after SCEA; there's no point in filling up the student body with them just yet. So a student has the edge in SCEA if they have certain qualities the adcoms look for (i.e. someone they are absolutely sure they would admit RD anyway), but a lot of others are at a disadvantage from factors they can't control.</p>
<p>Well, looking at the 27 cc, very very few were legacies and very very few of the out and out rejects were legacies. I would think most legacies apply early but what reaosn would Yale have for accepting them early? They are not as difficult a group to court as the rest they want to absolutely secure. I guess Yale doesn't want to offend the really really important or rich legacies but that really is very few people. BUT having said all this which is mostly conjecture, why do YOU think Yale takes its legacies early? If it deferrs them, they're a pretty big bunch of the group that gets in rd</p>
<p>I don't know that Yale really does take its legacies early. I'd like to say it does because I was deferred, but a girl from my school was a double legacy and she was deferred too. I'm not sure if they give money, but I come from a pretty well-off town, so they could have given money over the years. Still, I think she may have been a weak applicant with good grades but hardly any ECs.
I think they take the legacies that they feel are the most important to them, or the best students. Or the legacies that are most likely to go to Yale?
I don't know. Who knows for sure how these things work?</p>
<p>Dear Kayrlis, I think you hit the nail on the head, "Who knows for sure how these things work?"
It seems like a long long time until April
and god knows how many applicants Yale got rd this year (no stats on that yet I gather)
ugh
I was deferred and the two other kids from my school who seem so so (more than me) qualified were deferred and a very bright recruited athlete got in (and what I admire is the other recruited athlete who said no because she didn't want her school experience to be predominantly athletics) .
In the end there aren't that many kids that are urms that are in the class so they're not a big chunk of the 700 ish kids that got in; and how many athletes can there be? Legacies are about 14% of the class so that's certainly less than 200 but like you the legacy I know with decent grades and high scores didn't get in but was deferred...the star at my school didn't get in; so ? maybe there are a lot of incredibles out there that wouldn't come near the cc threads
....................its a long time until April</p>
<p>Why did Princeton break into Yale's admission site last year?
Do the HYP schools know where you've applied, been admitted etc.</p>
<p>ummm... to those who say that Yale screwed over the bay area early, out of the surprisingly high 9 people I personally know who applied, 6 got in (including me and 3 people from my school.) I go to an average suburban public school in the bay area and only one of the 3 accepted kids from my school was an athlete. And I am your standard male white (not that it matters) kid who wrote a funny essay. I personally view the trick to getting in as the essays, or being a recruited athlete. So either take some writing classes or pick up the shotput!</p>
<p>Hm. I tried the shotput, but I kept tripping over the little concrete thingy that faces the field. You, pen, are now my best friend :)</p>
<p>Hey, apostrophic speech! You see, this is going to work out fine.</p>
<p>haha yeah, my coordination is not what you would call amazing. The only sport I've ever been somewhat sucessful in was synchronized swimming. And I wouldn't exactly include that among the highly recruited sports. Good thing I like to write.</p>
<p>i pimp synchronized sleeping.</p>
<p>word, dawg.</p>
<p>For long island people:</p>
<p>Great Neck: 0/2 EA (1 deffered, 1 rejected)
I dunno how many are going to be applying regular.</p>
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<p>Obviously they didn't know, but they wanted to find out. I'd imagine it would help w/ yield rates, etc...</p>
<p>When do we actually hear?????????????????????????</p>
<p>April 1st or thereabouts. For EA there were rumors decisions would come out the day before at around 5, but that didn't end up happening. It still might happen for RD if they finish deciding early. My personal opinion is that some sadistic person in one of those Ivy league admissions offices decided it would be funny to send out admissions letters on april fools day.</p>
<p>that is pretty sadistic.</p>
<p>My son is a recruited athlete in the REGULAR DECISION pool who has received a "likely" letter as described on the Ivy League website. <a href="http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/admission-statement.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/admission-statement.asp</a></p>
<p>It is not necessary for recruited athletes to go ED.</p>
<p>AHHH I'd sell my soul for a likely letter. Or an unlikely letter. Anything to make the agony end... lol</p>
<p>so we still have athletes and urms (from other ivies) and legacies to deal with in this huge pool..............................ahahahahah</p>
<p>You memorize 200 chinese words but each week you forget 1/5. If S is the number of words you remember after n weeks, the equation is
S=200(4/5) nth power. Howmany weeks does it take to forget all but three words? why is my brain not working. Isn't this plain algebra? I keep getting 3/200=4nth/5nth</p>
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<p>It is not necessary for recruited athletes to go ED.</p>
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<p>Football players are mostly recruited in January,
with national signing day on 2/1.
Other sports that have 11/1 signing day, those athletes tend to apply
in the Early round.</p>