<p>Is it true that their EA acceptance rate isn't that much higher than their RD acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Also, it seemed like that they would be stricter with acceptances on SCEA from their website atleast. They say you'll either get a Yes or No but not many waitlisted. Is this also true?</p>
<p>yea. last year, the SCEA acceptance rate was 13%. regular was 8%(!!!). yea. not that much of difference. still highly selective.</p>
<p>and for SCEA, you’re pretty much asking for an “early decision” kind of thing, so they try to waitlist as little amount of people as possible.</p>
<p>It seems like Stanford rejects more people rather than deferring them than Yale does. Maybe Stanford doesn’t want to spend time reconsidering applications that have already been looked at…</p>
<p>Stanford states that it wants to give out as many decisions as it can as soon as possible. they’re known for deferring a very small amount of people. and i hate to make this a bit more discouraging, but most of those who are deferred usually don’t get admitted in the end. possibly waitlisted, but a large number of them get rejected.</p>
<p>rachel909, what are your sources? Especially considering Stanford specifically states that if you are deferred, you cannot be waitlisted. Also, the last four people from my school who were deferred SCEA were accepted 
so keep the faith, but know that you will very likely be getting a final decision on 12/15 or whenever Stanford posts their decisions this year.</p>
<p>that’s just exactly what an admission officer told me when i asked her about defferment.</p>
<p>It is true that Stanford defers a relatively small number of EA applicants in comparison to other schools. Stanford does tell people that.</p>
<p>now it seems to me at least, that the kids that get deferred must have a better chance of getting in than the average person applying RD, as they managed to not get rejected EA when that is what happens to the vast majority of EA candidates. Furthermore, the EA applicants are generally stronger than the RD applicants, which would imply again that they have a better chance than the “average” RD applicant.</p>
<p>the difference in rates is very small
with that said, some argue that competitive students may have a better chance during RD
never know wat will happen</p>