So for SCEA...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>If you're not a legacy, URM, or recruited athlete, is it smarter to just wait until RD to apply to Yale? Or does SCEA actually increase your chances, even though you're competing with legacies/URMs/athletes/very qualified people?</p>

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<p>Yale’s SCEA acceptance rate for the Class of 2013 was 13.4%. The RD acceptance rate was a mere 5.4%. Assuming Yale is your top choice, and further assuming you don’t need to bolster your GPA with first semester senior grades or take the SAT/ACT once again after the SCEA deadline, it makes sense to apply SCEA.</p>

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<p>legacy, URM, or recruited athlete… </p>

<p>I was none of those and I got in EA… Because of the competitiveness of the EA pool, and the motivation of those applying early, I think that the acceptance rate doesn’t really matter. </p>

<p>If you’re sure Yale is your top choice, then don’t hesitate to apply early.</p>

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<p>The acceptance rate for the Class of 2012 was 18.1% EA, and 4.8% RD. A pretty drastic difference.</p>

<p>However, from the college’s website (<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html):%5B/url%5D”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html):</a> </p>

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<p>Ultimately, it’s your call.</p>

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<p>i wasn’t legacy, URM, or a recruited athlete… and i wasn’t an over-qualified candidate (i thought i was under-qualified) and i applied EA simply because yale was my first choice. i got in, so i would say go for it. you might as well - if there are too many legacy, URM, and recruited athletes they will just defer you and you won’t be any worse off than if you had just applied RD… good luck.</p>