<p>My sister is planning to apply SCEA to either Yale or Princeton, and she's really torn between the two. She's interested in double majoring in English and Physics; she's more of a liberal arts than a science student, and is not pre-med.</p>
<p>As you already know, this is Princeton's first year in a while offering early apps, so there's not much history from which we can infer their early admit rate. Yale, I believe, is sitting at about 14% for EAs.</p>
<p>I am an incoming freshman at Yale, and Yale is my sister's top choice. However, she would rather EA the school that she has a better chance of getting into. Princeton's overall admit rate is slightly higher than Yale's, but it's difficult to tell how the rates will compare for EA.</p>
<p>Which would you suggest--Princeton or Yale? Please suggest!</p>
<p>I think your post says it all. No one really knows what Princeton will do.</p>
<p>When you come right down to it, whether a school has a 14% admit rate (vs a 12% or a 16%) rate doesn’t make that much of a difference. She should apply to the school that’s her top choice.</p>
<p>She’s afraid of “wasting” her SCEA. But if she’s got the stats and oomph in her file to get into one, she’s a likely candidate for the other. If she doesn’t it for one, she’s likely not to have it for the other as well. That being said, I concur 100% with zephyr.</p>
Eh…Once you get in the single digits of overall acceptance rates (keep in mind of course that early acceptance rates are boosted by near-guaranteed admits like athletes and such) the differences are pretty negligible and she is pretty much just as likely to get rejected by Princeton and accepted by Yale as the vice-versa. If Yale’s her top school, she should apply there, not over-thinking the 1 percentage point difference in acceptance rate…</p>
<p>No such thing except for a very unusual case like the quads Yale just took. I suspect they got much more press taking all four than if they took two and I wouldn’t be surprised if that boosted the others.</p>
<p>Agree with posters above re Y vs. P . No one knows what the numbers at Princeton will look like with the re-introductions of SCEA. If securing a competitive admission in the EA round is the main priority, I would make a good argument to skip SCEA and do EA at a couple of schools like Chicago or the equivalent.</p>