<p>Are you guys really saying that nearly half of SCEA applicants get in?</p>
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<p>Uh … no one made such a claim.
The numbers are public; the SCEA acceptance rate hovers around 14-15% if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>@YeloPen: I was just confused about what you and another poster had said about Yale deferring half the SCEA applicants.
I hadn’t seen anyone post on this thread that had been rejected, and I had misinterpreted these comments.</p>
<p>Accepted.</p>
<p>I think myself (as a person) just really came out through my application. Each component reflected a different part of me, which I think really helped. My main essay focused on showing my compassion and empathy, my supplement was about the arts, my teacher recs and counselor rec showed my intellectual side, etc.</p>
<p>^^ Ah, I see. No worries :)</p>
<p>Communist101, don’t get discouraged. At a certain point, its a huge crapshoot. You are probably just as deserving as the majority of people who got in Early-- just, unfortunately, for whatever reason, they weren’t able to accept you this time around. There are just so many amazing kids and they can’t accept all of them. You will get into an amazing school, even if its not Yale. The deferral is no way a judgement of your quality, just remember that.</p>
<p>It’s annoying seeing all of these ppl nagging because they got deferred. First of all, there’s a high possibility that ppl with those stats will get in RD. Second, did you guys just do all of these competitions and win all of those awards to get into Yale? If you’re that saccharine goody goody student who goes into girl/boy scouts when they’re 6, becomes the president of like 5 clubs, wins a bunch of science awards, practices from the 7th grade to get a 2400 on the SAT, etc, etc… ALL without having the passion for what you’re doing, you are RIDICULOUS. Don’t think that just because you have a bunch of ECs and test scores, the Ivies won’t look at your character. A laundry list of awards and ec’s means nothing compared to true character, and that’s why students get accepted each year, who lack those pretenses. AND they are NOT less deserving than those laundry-list students, but they have a quality that shows that they are passionate about what they do and plan to do.</p>
<p>Especially @ Communist: You said “I guess it’s not enough,” and that’s the whole problem in the first place. You’re doing all of this stuff, impressive as it may be, but maybe you just fell into stereotype of an over-working Asian. I have an Asian friend who got into Yale with low 2100’s on the SAT, but he loved his EC’s, which were MUCH less prestigous than yours, and he had NO awards.</p>
<p>This was such a rant XD</p>
<p>I remembered 1 thing by the end of your post:</p>
<p>You used saccharine…:)</p>
<p>I know it was LONG XD, but it’s true lol</p>
<p>^ Definitely a rant. But also definitely true.</p>
<p>overachiever92, that was BEAUTIFUL rant, i must say. AMEN!</p>
<p>overachiever92-- I agree with the main point of your rant. Yale is looking for people with true passion, not just a laundry list of activities done for the point of it, and people need to realize that. Also, the notion that one person is significantly more qualified than another because of a couple hundred point difference on the SATs are absurd. SATs can be studied for, and alot of it has to do with chance. On a given day, you might do 50 to 100 points better on each section.</p>
<p>However, I think you are being a little harsh (especially with communistwhatever). You can still be totally passionate about something while still hoping it will lead to bigger and better things (which allow you to continue your passions). Also, I think a deferral can seem to the applicants like a judgement of quality (as though Yale is saying their passions are not good enough, which definitely hurts), and even though it most certainly isn’t, it can definitely feel like that immediately after receiving the decision. </p>
<p>But I agree with the main point of your rant, that people need to stop valuing perfection (especially with SAT scores) over passion and drive.</p>
<p>^ I agree with some of what you’re saying. Maybe I got a little carried away with Communist, since I really don’t know all of his circumstances.</p>
<p>As for the part about the deferral, I disagree. The early decision system should be seen as a perk to applicants, to find out if they are getting in or not beforehand. There is a set quota for Yale as to how many applicants they can admit during this period, so not everyone qualified can get in. Getting deferred does NOT mean that (and shouldn’t feel like) your abilities as a student and person are not wanted by Yale. Rather, it should be seen as not getting the benefit of finding out early whether you got in or not. If you are meant to get in or not, you will find out RD or early, there’s no difference quite frankly. The ppl deferred have the same chance as the RD applicants to get in, and that is nothing to sneeze at, or feel sad about. If you get rejected, the tears can start rolling but before that, it’s just silly. The only difference might be that deferrees might feel like they have to keep trying in school in order to get in, but that’s something that they should be doing in either case (and pure laziness).</p>
<p>Also, people who get offended by their deferrals need to work out their egotistic issues, because NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE has a guaranteed invitation into Yale-caliber schools, no matter how inflated their image of their achievements might be.</p>
<p>^ I have to say, I like the way you think 
That aside, only abut 5.6% of RD applicants got in last year, compared to 15% or so in EA, the odds may indeed be a bit lower(then you add in that the pool may be easier in RD but in EA they have to admit the legacies and atheletes and we realize things for what they are, namely too difficult to figure out…). The things is, though, if Yale didn’t reject you first time around, you’ve got a decent shot in the next round, which is more than many other people who apply RD, so it’s not worth it to be so upset…</p>