<p>As the rumor has been going around, the SCEA competition will be insane this year, since supposedly most kids whom would have applied EA to Harvard and Princeton will be doing so to Yale. </p>
<p>So I am thinking, can we assume that the general number of applicants to EA for each school are the same each year? If so, that would mean that, if most potential Harvard/Princeton students decide to go Yale EA, that would mean that there would be about 10,000 EA Yale applicants this year:</p>
<p>About 3800 students applied to Harvard EA last year
About 1800 students applied to Princeton EA last year.
About 4,000 students applied to Yale EA last year.</p>
<p>So that adds up to about 10,000. Then according to last year, Yale only accepted 670 students from their EA pool.</p>
<p>:-/ The future looks dim for Yale hopefuls. :(</p>
<p>I highly doubt that every potential Harvard/Princeton SCEA/ED applicant will apply to Yale. EA should be used so that students who truly want to attend Yale to attend. It should not be a safety net in the competitive college admissions process. In my opinion Yale will see a slight influx in applications along with Stanford and possibly MIT and/or University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Oh yes, I did forget about Stanford, and other top colleges, so maybe it won't be as high as 10,000. Though, as much as we'd like students to have good will and not apply to Yale unless it is their absolute first choice, I doubt that would be the case (I wish it were though :P).</p>
<p>What is the possibility of Yale simply deferring more applicants instead of just rejecting them? There might be a possibility that even those who are accepted at Yale EA will still apply to Harvard/Princeton regular decision, and if accepted there, would go to those schools instead, leaving open again the seat that they took. Is that a possibility?</p>
<p>i really don't think yale will be affected much.....anyone who wants to go to harvard and princeton is going to wait for harvard and princeton.....but what do any of us know such fishy business</p>
<p>My bet is that there will be a lot of deferrals. Last year Yale deferred more EA applicants than usual--traditionally the rejection rate EA was quite high. Especially given the very limited time the admissions officers will have to read a large number of applications, I'd think they'd want to defer and have time to consider things in a less rushed fashion.</p>
<p>Only after May 1 can there be a degree of certainity as to which student
will be attending which institution. This points to the Waiting-list being
being benefited the most ....?</p>
<p>Arwen--I think you have a good point about waitlisting. Yale was oversubscribed for several years and in the past two years seems to have accepted fewer students and taken more off the waitlist as an enrollment management tool. I expect the waitlist will be key this upcoming year as EA will create so much uncertainty about how many people Yale will actually yield.</p>