<p>I'm a senior in a competitive public school, and I've pretty much established that Yale is my first-choice school. My quantitative stats are good, I guess (2380 SAT, 4.0 GPA with rigorous courseload, 2 800s on SAT II's, all 5s on several APs).
I have one really important musical extracurricular that takes up most of my time, and I have a tight national/international performance schedule during the school year as well as summer vacation. I have a recording contract and am recording my first CD very soon. My love for music has also turned into a neuroscience project at a university as part of a research team.
As a result of all of this, my other extracurriculars are a little bit generic (president of this, VP of that, whatever).
Do you think it's worth applying SCEA, despite not being an athletic recruit, URM, legacy, or fabulously rich development case?
I'm also applying to Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Duke, Williams, and some safeties.</p>
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I think you pretty much answered that question already. ;)</p>
<p>What’s the alternative? SCEA at Harvard? Obvious you can ED at any other school. Unless Cambridge is more appealing than Yale, I think you’re the perfect candidate for Yale SCEA.</p>
<p>The alternative is to EA at a match like Georgetown (forgot that on my list). I guess it would be a confidence boost if I got in, but it wouldn’t save me from having to apply to a lot of schools.
Or I could EA at Harvard, but I felt a deeper calling here. Just doing this for ****s and giggles, I guess, because I’m aware of how capricious the admissions process is. Thanks for the insight!</p>
<p>Apply SCEA. If you don’t get in, I don’t know who will lol</p>
<p>It seems that you really really really do love Yale, so you SHOULD apply SCEA! There’s no harm in doing so; if accepted, it’s not binding, and if deferred/rejected, you still have your other schools!</p>