<p>If you are accetpted in the SCEA round and is going to enroll, will you withdraw your applications from other colleges? It will definitely help the RD applicants.</p>
<p>I did the day I accepted. 
It just takes a quick email.</p>
<p>"It will definitely help the RD applicants. " Not really. </p>
<p>Yale knows roughly the numbers of SCEA admitted students who will accept their offer before the final evaluations of the RD round. I doubt this number varies much year to year. They already know how many they are going to admit in the RD pool this very moment.</p>
<p>^I think they mean help the RD applicants of other schools to which the Y EA admits have applied. These strong applicants are like to be admitted to other colleges and possibly bump other people to WLs.</p>
<p>OIC. That makes sense. I would have my kid withdraw unless there was a compelling reason too.</p>
<p>Agreed, entomom. My son withdrew his Harvard app as soon as he got in SCEA to Yale. The top schools tend to take a few kids from our high school, and if he had taken up two “slots” knowing all along he never would have gone to Harvard even if he got in, he would have felt bad if another top kid in the grade didn’t get in. As it turns out his good friend did not get into Harvard, but at least my son knew it was not because he took up the spot. Bragging rights are not worth the guilt or bad karma, or whatever you call it. (of course if he wasn’t 100% sure he wanted Yale, that would be a different call).</p>
<p>T26E4, I am not sure whether Yale does have as clear idea about how many applicants of those accepted early will commit because of the reinstated Harvard and Princeton SCEA’s. At least to me, it seems as though this year the early applicant pool should yield more committed students because the ones who applied truly want to go and are not Princeton or Harvard hopefuls impatient to get into at least one good school early. </p>
<p>If I were accepted, I would not withdraw my other applications because financial aid is a matter and I would need to see what the other schools would offer me. And yes, I do know Yale is really generous. However, if that’s not an issue - I think trophy hunting should be given no priority. I would withdraw and open up some space for a mate who does want to go to a school I am sure I am not going to go to. :)</p>
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<p>Understandable. Although HYPS are all very generous, every year there are instances where one is substantially lower than another. So it can help to have other FA offers, even at this level, to compare to.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your input. If anyone else is withdrawing their applications from HPS, please post.</p>
<p>I withdrew HYS, as well as a slew of Ivies. I sometimes get pangs of regret, feeling as though I should have tried for H or Y, but I guess it makes me feel better knowing my classmates have less competition to their top choices. Yeah…</p>
<p>Thanks decillion. Anyone else?</p>
<p>@MacnCheese4321
I don’t mean to be rude, but I still don’t understand what you’re getting at. CC, as much as we’d all like to pretend it isn’t, is a VERY small, self-selected group of people. You may get a few positive responses here and there, but my guess is that’s not your goal…</p>
<p>I’m still applying to Princeton and a few other schools. Someone posted about this on the Facebook group for Yale admits and it seems that many people are still considering HP for RD.</p>
<p>@classicgirll if you read through all of macncheese posts you will find that his/her intention is clear. He/she wants to manipulate SCEA accepted applicants into withdrawing their RD applications from other HYPS schools in order to make it “easier” for other applicants. He/she is defnintely not “data collecting” imo.</p>
<p>MacnCheese4321: This is not rocket science. Colleges employ statisticians to calculate declination rates. That is how Yale, Harvard, Princeton and all the rest of selective colleges roughly know-- within a few percentage points – how many students they need to accept to achieve a desired class size. When there is a doubt, Admissions Offices are conservative; they accept fewer students and increase the size of their waitlist.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your input. This discussion was very helpful and I learned a lot. I won’t be checking this thread anymore. So goodbye.</p>
<p>Google “Higher Education Yield Management Solutions” and you fill find a handful of companies that are trying to sell their yield prediction services to colleges.</p>