<p>heyguys,</p>
<p>I was just reading the post about Yale EA...</p>
<p>and some people were saying that this year, Yale EA will be tougher than ever...that Harvard and Princeton EDs will probably apply to Yale SCEA..</p>
<p>Why is this? sorry, not very informed about this stuff...</p>
<p>If anyone would be kind enough to explain what SCEA is..</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>p.s. oh yeah, Im planning on applying to Yale EA this fall...</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton abolished their early admissions programs, meaning that probably a good deal of people who would have applied early at one of those schools will apply early at Yale instead.</p>
<p>SCEA = Single Choice Early Action</p>
<p>Essentially, it is a non-binding version of ED. You can only apply to one school SCEA (hence the "single choice").</p>
<p>SCEA is single choice early action. It's like regular EA in that it's non binding, but it's unique in that if you apply early to yale, then you are commiting to apply early to only yale and no other college. People speculate that harvard/princeton hopefuls may apply to yale early next year to get an advantage at one of the nation's best colleges as a back up plan in case they don't get into their first choice during the regular round.</p>
<p>I'll be interested to see if Yale or Stanford receives the bigger boost in SCEA apps when controlling for the overall size of the applicant pool--i.e. which school the typical Harvard or Princeton wannabe identifies with more.</p>
<p>^^lol</p>
<p>I think the answer is obviously Yale, but one can never be too sure</p>
<p>thank you all for ur explanations! I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>yeah, I'd probably say yale. not because stanford is any less spectacular than yale, but because harvard, yale and princeton are all on the east coast, whereas stanford is on the west</p>
<p>I agree as well, although I quickly observed at the Stanford admit weekend the mass amounts of fellow cross admits with MIT. For those who haven't investigated the great engineering opportunities at Yale, applied science majors who may have applied to Princeton ED (its engineering is ranked in the top ten) will opt for MIT or Stanford EA.</p>