<p>I'm a student from California -- I'm thinking about applying in the biology field (anything biology is fine). I have no preference for weather, small/large class size, etc.</p>
<p>I'm thinking as an out-of-state applicant, I'll have to pay more, and Yale would like that. However, some of my friends (CA also) got into Harvard and Stanford regular decision but not Yale EA...</p>
<p>I know it's kind of hard to say, but any general ideas?</p>
<p>To my understanding (which may be wrong), out-of-staters don’t pay any more than state residents at private universities such as Yale or Stanford.</p>
<p>^I thought that too. </p>
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<p>If you have no preference as to where you’re spending the next 4 (presumably) years of your life, then why don’t you just write “Yale” and “Stanford” on slips of paper, put them in a hat, and pick one at random?</p>
<p>To me the social scene between the two schools is vastly different. You should talk w/current students or undergrads to see which you’d prefer more. The physical outlay of Yale creates a different dynamic than Stanford.</p>
<p>And there’s no difference in or out state at Y or S. Plus, Y is need blind. Being a full pay student doesn’t matter a lick to them.</p>
<p>If Y or S admissions were to ask you: Why Yale or Why Stanford – what would you say? Which answer has more meaning to you?</p>
<p>since they are both private you will pay the same either way-i think.
but i would pick yale becuase it is an ivy</p>
<p>flipflo: Stanford’s non-Ivy affiliation is no reason NOT to apply to it as an SCEA school. Hopefully you’ll investigate your own college choices more deeply than that thin reasoning.</p>
<p>I would pick the one you feel you are most likely to be accepted at.</p>
<p>If you like them equally, definitely go for the one you feel you have more chance of getting into (not like this is really any different, they are both ridiculously selective).</p>
<p>To regurgitate some information popular on CC:</p>
<p>Stanford’s SCEA was an patternless slaughter last year, but it seemed friendly to minorities.</p>
<p>Yale’s SCEA last year was patterned very slightly. The higher your stats, the better chance of getting in - whereas there was no statistical difference between Stanford admits and rejects. Yale appears to defer more students; Stanford rejects more.</p>
<p>Stanford’s policy to outright reject more may appear harsh at the outset, but it at least allows the rejected to more quickly hone in on their other applications. I know a Stanford SCEA reject from last year who is happily matriculating at Yale this year. She is a talented engineering major of Japanese ancestry who has a rather unique EC, competitive calligraphy (who knew?)</p>
<p>You’ll have a better chance at Yale being from CA. It’s marginal as both take so few and CA is overrepresented in the Yale applicant pool too, but Stanford is working to cut back their percentage from CA.</p>