<p>Early</a> apps constant over last year | Yale Daily News</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065901040-post31.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1065901040-post31.html</a></p>
<p>Still, having a separate thread for this is nice.</p>
<p>Stanford applicants can suck it.</p>
<p>Not one to dig through other threads looking for links…</p>
<p>I think what hurts the Y apps # is the Single choice</p>
<p>OTOH it means that Y is looking for apps form students who truly want Y first–not that they are trying to use EA stategies in believing it gives them a leg up…</p>
<p>Consider how many students you know applying EA to many schools. That’s like telling too many girls you “love” them all at the same time…kwim…and then choosing the girlfriend/fiance based on who responds to all of those professions of love…</p>
<p>Of course what “hurts” Yale early application numbers is the single-choice rule. When Harvard first introduced early action, without a single-choice requirement, it was “swamped” with thousands more applications than it had anticipated. (Which meant, back then, that it got about as many EA applications as Yale does now.) The single-choice rule was a traffic flow limiter, because the admissions staff didn’t think it could pay adequate attention to that many applications in November and still do the rest of their jobs. </p>
<p>How many early applications do you think Yale and Stanford and MIT would get if you could apply early simultaneously to all three of them (and to Chicago and Georgetown as well)? Easily 10,000+. And why would anyone want that?</p>
<p>The reason all the EA schools get more applications than ED schools is precisely because you don’t have to tell the school you are in love with it and want to get married. And, at the same time, there isn’t anything like the admissions advantage that ED offers over RD. EA is student-friendly, and doesn’t inherently favor rich people. (The demographics of EA are fairly different from those of ED.) There is absolutely nothing wrong with applying EA to multiple colleges – all of them, except Yale and Stanford, basically encourage it.</p>
<p>The “Single Choice” part is why Yale offers EA. It gives Yale several months of exclusive lead time to “bond” with those applicants whom Yale most wants to yield…particularly the extraordinary applicants who may not be dead set on choosing Yale. By the time every one of the other colleges those most-coveted applicants are considering first express their interest in those students, Yale has been showing them the love long time.</p>
<p>SCEA is for those people. It’s not simply for people who would get into Yale anyway. That better describes the deferral list – or part of it. SCEA admits are the people who Yale intentionally decided it wants to make sure it yields to the detriment of its peer institutions. Presently, there are a mere 750 (less athletes) applicants for whom Yale wants to have this competitive edge over its peer institutions. Single Choice is the vehicle by which Yale claims that edge…meaning Single Choice is not so much a vehicle for keeping the EA applicant pool to a manageable size (although that’s a nice ancillary benefit for busy Yale AdComs).</p>
<p>One benefit about SCEA is that it is a self selected group for Y
…they know the applicants had to choose carefully the EA/ED/SCEA decision
…and I can bet the yield on those SCEA apps is pretty high.</p>
<p>^^
Now am I correct that Stanford and Yale are the only SCEA apps…
MIT has EA</p>
<p>JHS & D’yer Maker - Great explanations. I never really thought about SCEA that way.</p>
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Tulane also offers SCEA. I don’t know of any other college that offers SCEA. Also, at Stanford, I think SCEA it’s techinically called REA, even though the restrictions are nearly the same</p>
<p>What did Harvard have before they went to all regular decision?</p>
<p>^Early Decision</p>
<p>I thought it was EA…</p>
<p>[?Application</a> Inflation? Has Many Causes?and Consequences - Head Count - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/‘application-inflation’-has-many-causes—and-consequences/27722?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en]?Application”>http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/‘application-inflation’-has-many-causes—and-consequences/27722?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en)</p>
<p>interesting item–
Can we have some appause for Yale’s more balance recruiting of prospective applicants!!<br>
Still 80,000 viewbooks is A LOT when you consider the 1300 in a class.</p>