<p>^What state would that be?</p>
<p>hey, i know i’m responding kind of late to this comment but i just wanted to clear something up… ivies can recruit athletes and although they do give a likely letter (which is basically a guaranteed acceptance), the process is a lot more confusing than you would think.</p>
<p>sd6, I’m from Nevada. I don’t know what it is, but we never seem to get a lot of kids to Ivies (maybe it’s the massive climate difference and the fact that the UCs are right next door that makes kids hesitant to apply). Here’s where I got the info for Yale: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W026_Fresh_byState.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W026_Fresh_byState.pdf</a></p>
<p>Wow, I’m shocked that there’s a lot of states that have under 10 students matriculating into Yale. I guess that coming from a state like New York does that to a person. Sigh…owlwise, you luckily have geographic diversity for the admissions process.</p>
<p>I’m applying to Yale SCEA. And hopelessly hopeful, cause Yale is amazing.</p>
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True, but my SAT scores are only 2100, insanely high for Nevada, but not so on CC. Regional diversity may be a bigger factor than scores though, because one of my good friends was accepted ED to John Hopkins’ program in biomedical engineering with a flat 1800 on her SAT. Until admittance letters come around I’m just crossing my fingers. My school’s never sent anyone to Yale before. Yale actually wasn’t even in my top 5 choices until I visited it this summer. SO AWESOME!</p>
<p>I’m applying!</p>
<p>owlwise:</p>
<p>I just wanted to point out that the table you linked to shows numbers of enrolled students. To estimate the number of admitted students, multiply by 1.5 (the reciprocal of Yale’s yield number). So, instead of 3-6/year from NV, you can guess 5-9/year are accepted. (Some students turn down the invite).</p>
<p>Just thought you could use a little extra ray of sunlight.</p>
<p>^Actually, I could. Just found out I’m the only kid in my school applying SCEA to Yale, so I’m nervous.</p>
<p>There are two of us from my school applying SCEA, and at least another five applying RD.
The other person applying used to be one of my closest friends, until he seemingly lost it a while back, became insanely competitive, obsessive and fought with everyone he could. I have better stats than him, so somehow from seeing me as a friend, he now sees me, and other people, as ‘competition’. </p>
<p>It’s kind of freaky to see what college competition turns kids into.</p>
<p>Oh and i just wanted to confirm, last date for SAT 2’s for students applying early is October right? Anyone else taking them then? I’ll feel better knowing i’m not the only one who left it so late.</p>
<p>^I’m taking the SAT II’s in October. M Bio, Lit, and US History. I’ve either been in a show, out of the country, or at a debate tournament for most of the other SAT dates so nothing like some last-minute scrambling.
On a side note had a meeting with my gc today. No one from my school’s been accepted to Yale in the last 2 decades…well nothing like being a trailblazer I suppose.</p>
<p>two decades?! woah. We had three students in the last four five years i think.</p>
<p>^Yeah it’s pretty scary. The only way I can make it make sense is that most of our top kids end up going to Stanford, Ponoma, or UCs over here because they’re reluctant to move 3,000 miles away for college. I was looking up admissions statistics on my gc’s computer and only one or two kids a year even bother applying, so I feel a little better.</p>
<p>Soo…just waiting for the supplement to come out… <em>twiddles thumbs</em></p>
<p>Out of a desire to have an acceptance in hand come December, I’m applying to Chicago and Georgetown EA and keeping my fingers crossed for RD.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you all!</p>
<p>^ To be perfectly honest, it probably won’t change anything for Yale if most of us apply RD over SCEA. According to a deferree from my school, the interviewer flat out told her that your father has to be a senator or you have to be a wizard with a field hockey stick to get in SCEA.</p>
<p>And yet, I’m doing it anyway. :)</p>
<p>SCEA is the way to go, specially if you’re a legacy.</p>
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This isn’t even remotely true. While many athletes are admitted during SCEA, it certainly takes no more than 200 recruited athletes every year to stock Yale’s 33 varsity sports teams and probably far fewer. (If Yale offered athletic scholarships they would be limited to about 100 annually for all of their teams by Division 1 rules.) Qualified children of celebrities number far fewer than this. A very high estimate is that there are 250 such slots across the two categories, leaving about 500 (at the least) each year for “common folk”.</p>
<p>All you have to do is read previous years’ SCEA results threads to see hundreds of non-athlete/non-celeb posters who have been admitted via SCEA.</p>
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<p><em>rolls eyes</em> This probably isn’t the way that you meant for it to come off as, BlueSkyGuy, but you should know that A) Being a legacy does NOT guarantee you admission, not even close and B) The reason why SCEA has a higher admit rate is because it has the best, the brightest, and the most devoted Yale-lovers applying early. It’s as competitive as, if not more so, than RD.</p>
<p>/rant.</p>
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<p>Thank you, Descartez. I am one of the “common folk” and I feel like I have a fighting chance. It’s good to see the numbers laid out like that.</p>
<p>Just curious, how much of an emphasis do they place on recruited athlete? If you had a 25-26 ACT but were an amazing athlete, would you still have a chance of getting in? I know someone in this situation.</p>