<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I'm an early admit, and i was curious about how many other accepted pre-freshman are athletic recruits. Yale lets you make a profile on admits.yale.edu where you can talk about yourself, and athletes commonly mention that they're going to play such and such a sport for yale next year.</p>
<p>So...
I decided to see how many random profiles i would have to go through before finding 10 people who declared they'd be on the varsity ______ team next year (ie, they were recruited to that team). The answer? 37</p>
<p>Ten out of thirty seven randomly selected early admits were athletic recruits. That's about 27%. IMHO, that's huge. So next time an admissions officer tries to brush off or half justify that athletes are treated the same as other applicants, don't believe it.</p>
<p>Current Yale Admissions officers neither "brush off" nor "half justify" athletic recruits' chances. Athletes go through a pre-screening process before coaches begin recruiting and even then, a large number of them fail to make the final cut. </p>
<p>And with regards to the admits website, it's worth pointing out that nearly 200 admitted applicants have not created public profiles. To the best of my knowledge, the vast majority of these are not athletic recruits. Secondly, just because someone expresses an interest in competing for a varsity team next year shouldn't necessarily lead you to believe that he or she was an athletic recruit. A sizeable chunk of Yale sports teams are comprised of walk-ons.</p>
<p>Less than 15% of Yale's student body is made up of recruited athletes, many of whom are admitted in April as opposed to December. To imply that close to 30% of early admits are athletes is greatly misleading.</p>
<p>Athletes are more likely to go EA or ED b/c it is almost like signing a National Letter of Intent.</p>
<p>ED is a binding commitment. EA, which Yale uses, is not.</p>