<p>Stanford SCEA is less harsh than Yale SCEA?
An Asian guy on CC got into Stanford with a 1750 or 1950 SAT I. I am just curious about what happened.</p>
<p>Thank you Jersey13!!!:D</p>
<p>I wish you the best as well!:D</p>
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<p>Stanford seems to be less focused on test scores than does Yale.</p>
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<p>From Yale Web site:</p>
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<p>I would say it’s the other way around. Stanford has noted on it’s website amongst other sources that it prefers to give EA applicants a definite decision by the EA decision date so a much smaller number of applicants are deferred in comparison to those applying to Yale EA.</p>
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<p>Yes, I should have mentioned that. Stanford does indeed dole out more rejections early. In terms of gaining acceptance, however, the difficulty seems similar; but the admissions practices of the schools are somewhat different.</p>
<p>^ Stanford seems much more subjective, which may or may not be a disadvantage to me.</p>
<p>I’m applying. Yale is my absolute dream school. =) Hopefully, I might get lucky. Otherwise, Idk? =P</p>
<p>Yale is my top choice right now, but I need to see how my physics grade is going to turn out this semester (and thus my class rank) before I get too hopeful. I know one B doesn’t mean I’ll get rejected, but it could tip the scales. I’m a URM and have legacy at Yale. Should I apply SCEA?</p>
<p>@chaospreferable - It’s really up to you. It can’t hurt you, and it’d be nice knowing that you got into your dream school. However, if you think your application can only get better with time, I would wait.</p>
<p>Oh, a B won’t kill you. I got a B and I got into all the Ivies. I really think you should focus on who you are as a person instead of what grades you get. </p>
<p>I bet if you got al Fs this semester, they would actually look at your application for a longer time. Not favorably, maybe, but it would be amusing to see someone apply with all Fs. </p>
<p>I’m not serious about getting all Fs btw.</p>
<p>None of the kids in my high school have been accepted to Yale,Princeton or Harvard, Im hoping to be the first into Yale. May God help me. I’m really fearful of my grades and gpa and I’m a late bloomer-found out about honors and Ap’s later than the other geniuses, but I did challenge myself and my sophomore year was all honors with Honor Roll and High Honor Roll and this year is all AP’s and Honors as well. I hope to make up for my GPA and transcript by excelling in the SAT I, ACT, Ap’s and SAT II’s. I will also have amazing essays since I have experienced a lot and have soo much to write about it. I’m also President of Model Un in my school and have some other positions as well. In addition, Im a girl and a minority (African American). Well I’ll make a thread soon, for you guys to chance me, but anyways I hope I get in. I will be really sad if I don’t. :/</p>
<p>I hope nobody I know IRL sees me post here, I’d feel so pompous, haha. But anyway, I have grown to dislike Brown (which I used to <3) and have come to like Yale much more. I’m a Native American sustainability-aficionado (with strong ties to my tribe and also to journalism) so I’m hoping I’ll have a shot. I have a decent enough SAT, and I’ll probably have a 3.9 if and when I apply SCEA here.</p>
<p>You guys are amazing.
I will be happy wherever I end up to be.</p>
<p>A word of encouragement to those of you applying to Yale EA:</p>
<p>Chances are, you will be deferred. A Yale deferral is extremely frustrating and annoying, because it seems to mean almost nothing, when over 50% of applicants were placed into the same boat as you. However, an acceptance after a deferral is definitely possible, and I am a living testament to that. Though my deferral was a huge blow to my confidence as an applicant, I ended up getting into Harvard, Princeton, and Brown on April 1. </p>
<p>As well, a note about SAT scores:</p>
<p>Don’t worry so much. After I was deferred EA, I decided to retake my 2260 superscore, and dropped over 150 points. I still got in RD, despite how “awful” of a score a 2260 seems on CC.</p>
<p>I think a deferral from Yale is almost a good sign. This year, a number of people on CC who were deferred from Yale EA got likely letters from Dartmouth around February, and almost all Yale deferrees (did I spell that right?) got acceptances from fabulous schools come April.</p>
<p>An EA acceptance would make Senior Year much, much less stressful. I would be able to drop all but 3 of my RD applications and just enjoy my last year in HS.</p>
<p>^Ah, me too. But I am planning on finishing the rest of my applications before then so I won’t be inundated with a bunch of college-related work if I’m deferred/rejected; that would just be depressing.</p>
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<p>I don’t know that I would recommend that. What you want in the beginning of senior year may be greatly different from what you want at the beginning. For example, I wanted nothing more than to go to Stanford at the beginning of the year. However, I was rejected. On the other hand, if I were to get in today due to some mistake, I wouldn’t choose to go to Stanford again.</p>
<p>In fact, there is one school that I didn’t apply to that I wish I had applied to! Really, I applied to 30+ schools and I regret not applying to one more. :)</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll change too much in college preferences over the course of a year, especially considering the marginal differences between many of the colleges I plan to apply to.</p>
<p>You never know, Jersey13. I applied to Stanford SCEA and was accepted. I applied to Yale RD on a whim (the whole just-to-see sentiment) and am now seriously considering it over Stanford.</p>
<p>The only 3 RD applications I would actually send out if Yale accepted me EA would be H, P and S.</p>