<p>@sd6, I’m actually hoping on getting all of my apps in by November so I don’t have to stress later on, but I can see how waiting would be nice if you don’t want to pay for extra college apps. I wouldn’t suggest it though, because applying earlier gives you the time to see if you’re missing anything. When you wait too long, you leave yourself more vulnerable to holes in your application.</p>
<p>^Okay, and because Yale isn’t my first choice, I will still apply to Columbia and Harvard by October, because I would apply to those two regardless of whether I get in early at Yale.</p>
<p>@ Nikkor50mm</p>
<p>I woke up two days ago and decided not to. Two of the schools I very much like, that I have a bit of a better shot at, offer non-restrictive early action, and I´m figuring if I can get myself into a college I like by December, my future prospects for sanity in the months of January, Febuary & March would be seriously improved.</p>
<p>Oh. My. Goodness. Yale EA is making me nervous.
The majority of the time I’ve attended school I’ve always assumed I’d somehow work hard enough to get a yes from Yale. Yet I shall find out in four months whether or not I will. AHHHHHHHH!</p>
<p>Lucy: MIT and UChicago, I’m assuming?</p>
<p>@ Nikkor
UChi and Georgetown SFS at the mo´, though I´m toying with attempting to try to realize my MIT daydreams. I would not really consider MIT´s admissions process to be easier than Yale´s, though it is differant in ways that could work for me.</p>
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<p>How do you consider it to be different?</p>
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<p>I would consider MIT slightly less selective than Yale, though the gap is minor.</p>
<p>How do you consider it to be different?</p>
<p>—There´s been talk of them consdering a 750 in a section to be equivalent to an 800, other schools disagree. MIT´s proccess puts more weight on math and science, you can apply to Yale without taking math or science subject tests. MIT does not consider legacy, MIT does not athletically recruit. MIT allows score choice, Yale does not. MIT superscores, Yale does not. MIT is not common app, Yale is. MIT requires paragraph questions rather than two long essays. MIT only allows you to list 5 activities. MIT´s interview ends with a detailed report written by your interviewer sent to the admissions office, Yale´s interviewers send only one numeric score. </p>
<p>I would consider MIT slightly less selective than Yale, though the gap is minor.
—Yes, Yale accepted 1% less of it´s applicants in 2009, but both admit rates are so small that no applicant can really consider either to be a more likely admit.</p>
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<p>Yes, that all looks correct.</p>
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<p>Actually, it’s a 2.2-percentage-point difference. That’s still not huge, though.</p>
<p>“other schools disagree”</p>
<p>I reaaally want to see evidence of this if you have it. As in, something an admissions officer actually said.</p>
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<p>There is significant statistical evidence for it.</p>
<p>Wait. I thought Yale superscored?</p>
<p>^ Yale mostly superscores, but they say that they want to give your other scores a look too.</p>
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What about Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford?</p>
<p>You can find that information yourself on the CollegeBoard website.</p>
<p>Actually, you’re wrong. I think you’ve made the common mistake of equating superscoring and score choice.</p>
<p>[Search</a> Results](<a href=“http://search.collegeboard.com/servlet/sitesearch?searchType=site&qt=superscore]Search”>http://search.collegeboard.com/servlet/sitesearch?searchType=site&qt=superscore)
[Search</a> Results](<a href=“http://search.collegeboard.com/servlet/sitesearch?searchType=site&qt=“super+score”]Search”>http://search.collegeboard.com/servlet/sitesearch?searchType=site&qt=“super+score”)</p>
<p>You´re links are broken, Nikkor, but I think you´re right. </p>
<p>[Instructions</a> for Reporting Your Scores | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“Home | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Home | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)
¨Though the committee works with summary information that focuses attention on the highest officially reported scores you attained on each section of the SAT I, the highest scores on individual subject tests and/or the highest ACT composite score, committee members and the readers of your application will have access to a full history of all officially reported scores.¨</p>
<p>That sounds like superscoring to me, while still requiring all scores.</p>
<p>^ Note how they said that they focus attention on the highest combined score. A pure superscoring practice would consider only the highest combined score.</p>
<p>So they do superscore…and at the same time…don’t?</p>
<p>^ They do superscore, but they seem to consider more than that superscore to some extent.</p>