<p>Just an informal survey: how many of you have Yale as a First Choice and are set on going, and how many are still applying to other schools RD to see what happens? I am curious to see how good of a job Y did weeding out those who applied to Yale EA because they truly loved the school vs. applying to the "next Ivy" after Harvard and Pton dropped their own EAs this year!</p>
<p>As for me, I love Yale, but I am still keeping my possibilities open and will be applying to a bunch of other schools in the next week or so.</p>
<p>BTW, if any of you have not yet checked out the Yale forum, the 'blue marble' thingy, downloaded the AIM lists of fellow admittees, and made use of the other spiffy features Yale has thought up for us, do it right away!! :)</p>
<p>As a Canadian I don't really feel like I know enough about Yale vs. their main competitors to make a truly informed decision about which one is my first choice, so I will be applying to 3 other Ivy League schools before I make my final decision.</p>
<p>P.S. 8 Canadians admitted EA according to the "blue marble", huzzah for Canada!</p>
<p>Yale is awesome. I still will probably apply to Stanford or Princeton though just so I can have some choice. I don't know whether or not I'll apply to Harvard; I don't think I'd ever attend but I am thinking about applying. I feel like a jerk b/c I am already into what is probably my first choice even if I got into every college but I may still apply to one or two others b/c my parents r pressuring me...</p>
<p>My D accepted Yale within minutes of her Bulldog greeting. It's her first choice. Something to think about: if Yale or any other school is your first choice, and you are admitted, and you don't need/want to compare finaid, consider accepting and stopping your application processes at other schools. Why? Because your multiple acceptances to top schools rob other kids in your school, state and region from acceptances. Pull yourself out of the competition, if you really can and should.</p>
<p>"Because your multiple acceptances to top schools rob other kids in your school, state and region from acceptances."</p>
<p>If you look at this consideration on a macro level, one's decision to apply to multiple schools is predicted by a school's yield rate. You may choose to pull yourself out of the competition, but the behavior of you and hundreds of other applicants in a similar situation are part of the master calculation so it doesn't make a significant difference in the people the school accepts.</p>
<p>But on a micro scale, having two admits to Yale from our school, basically unheard of, means firstly, that anyone else from our high school would be crazy to apply to Yale RD. Secondly, it seems to me that in the absence of those two kids in the applicant pool at other schools, the rest of the students would have a much better chance of admission at the schools they apply to. </p>
<p>Yale is definitely my first choice, but it would be foolish of me to accept right now. Not because I like any others better than Y, but financial aid is a pressing concern, and I have to wait and see what other schools I will be accepted to and what they will offer. I did pull two apps at schools I was less than crazy about, but the others are still in the running. I think it's more than a little misleading to say that those who are not already confirmed members of the class of '12 are just in it because H and P got rid of EA. </p>
<p>riverrun- you are ABSOLUTELY correct in your assessment. Your daughter's withdrawal from the regular pool elsewhere cannot but help her classmates' chances. Why would anyone who has their first choice and no financial issues prolong the app process? Time to kick back and enjoy the holidays- my S sure is!</p>