<p>So now that Harvard and Princeton have instituted SCEA for the class of 2016 on, do you all think less students will apply to Stanford's and Yale's? I would think so since those who prefer Harvard and Princeton used to typically apply SCEA somewhere else since the two schools did not have such an option. </p>
<p>Also, if the applicant pools do decrease for Stanford and Yale, do you think the acceptance rates may slightly increase, or tend to hold? Obviously it will be just as difficult to be accepted, but I would think the percentages would slightly increase. Thoughts?</p>
<p>That is a good question. I think less people will apply but the Stanford and Yale might manipulate the system so the acceptance rate is low. I hope the rate goes up, I would love to attend Stanford or Yale.</p>
<p>On the one hand, applications might go down since students will actually be applying to their first choice instead of gaming the system and applying to Stanford SCEA. If that happens, the only way Stanford’s early rate would go down is if it accepted fewer people, which it might since it will expect a higher yield on those applicants.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Stanford (not sure about Yale) has continually had jumps in early applications, so there might actually be an increase in early apps, or the number would stay roughly constant (if the increase is offset by the loss of applicants to H/P early). It just depends on how many people are now applying to H/P early instead of Stanford/Yale.</p>
<p>So yes, Stanford and Yale will probably lose applicants to H/P early, but they will also expect higher yields on their early pools, so they end up accepting fewer people and deferring more.</p>
<p>1.) I did see the usual Harvard/Stanford, Yale/Stanford threads on CC this year, but not so many for Princeton/(Stanford or Yale/Harvard). Did Princeton try to avoid HYPSM cross-admits this year because of the extremely low yield from last year?</p>
<p>2.) I think Stanford won the cross-admit battle over Harvard this year. There were unusual more numbers of self-reporting threads on the CC that people chose Stanford over Harvard.</p>
<p>3.) Harvard’s a little more than 1% higher yield (30 + more students) came mainly from accepting more international students (with more than 90% yield compared regular 77%), and minority students, rather than winning much more HYPSM cross-admits, though there were some cross-admits on those two groups.</p>
<p>4.) There should be more SCEA applications for Harvard/Columbia, as it is silly to win the lotto at under 7% admit rates.</p>