Yale accepts accepts 649 students SCEA (14.4%)

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<p>Yale</a> accepts 14.4 percent of early applicants | Yale Daily News</p>

<p>"Yale will accept 649 students from its early applicant pool for admission this year, yielding a 14.4 percent early acceptance rate for the Class of 2017.</p>

<p>The Office of Undergraduate Admissions received 4,520 applications this year, a 4.4 percent increase from 4,323 applications last year. This year’s acceptance rate is slightly lower than last year’s of 15.7 percent. Yale will officially release its admissions decisions to all early applicants this afternoon.</p>

<p>“We were blessed once again that an incredibly strong and incredibly diverse group of the world’s highest achieving students made Yale their first choice school in the early process,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email to the News. “We now turn our attention quickly to the task of addressing the enormous number of outstanding applications still to come.”</p>

<p>Of the 4,514 applicants, 2,529 have been deferred for consideration in the regular decision round in the spring. Additionally, 1,302 were denied admission.</p>

<p>Harvard announced Thursday that it accepted 895 applicants out of its pool of 4,856, resulting in an 18 percent acceptance rate — roughly the same percent that it accepted last year, in the first early round since the school reinstated its early action program. Harvard deferred roughly 66 percent of the pool this year and rejected 13 percent.</p>

<p>Both Yale and Harvard have non-binding early action programs that allow applicants to apply to other colleges in the regular decision cycle and make a decision by May 1."</p>

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<p>That’s really cool!</p>

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<p>Interesting to see Harvard admitting so many more in SCEA than Yale while the pool sizes are practically the same.</p>

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<p>^It doesn’t bode well for H RD applicants, should be interesting to see how many S & P accepted early.</p>

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<p>^^ It would appear that Harvard is putting the squeeze on for RD applications, and possibly upping the ante for next year: Apply SCEA or be part of the RD 1-2%.</p>

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<p>Not sure why Harvard is doing that to be honest.</p>

<p>Also, don’t know if its just me, but was Harvard SCEA much less objective than Yale SCEA it seems? Almost as if it were opposite day at Harvard this year.</p>

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<p>I noticed that a vast majority of those accepted had significant accomplishments in research/STEM/politics.</p>

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<p>^ you talking about Yalre or Harvard?</p>

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<p>Yale. At least that’s the impression that I got.</p>

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<p>Stanford had a very low admit rate too.</p>

<p>Stanford has sent acceptance letters to 725 high school students who sought admission to the Class of 2017 under the university’s early admission program, the Office of Undergraduate Admission announced Friday, Dec. 14.</p>

<p>The students were selected from 6,103 early admission candidates, the largest restricted early application pool in Stanford’s history.</p>

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<p>CantConcentrate: I got the same impression. I’m curious to see how that trend will hold in RD admissions at Yale, since the group will be larger but perhaps with not as many ultra-stellar candidates.</p>

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<p>This is the fewest number of SCEA applicants they have ever admitted. You have to go back to 2003 (Dec., 2002), the last year of Yale ED, to find fewer early admissions (557). And as late as the 2001 the early admission rate (ED) was 37% (this was just before admissions went on-line).</p>

<p>My guess would be that, in the second year after H & P have re-established SCEA, the admissions office now feels they can firmly project the yield rate for their SCEA admits and that they can afford to be a little “tighter”.</p>