<p>Masamune, I guarantee that more than 6 from the Bay Area were admitted. My 120k town in Southern California had something like five early admits last year. </p>
<p>What's interesting about Yale is that because of their smaller class size compared to Harvard and Stanford, they can make it seem like they favor SCEA less, while arguably, they do so more than Stanford at least. Harvard and Stanford will admit very few of their EA-deffereds.</p>
<p>the maps that you get after getting admitted isn't very reliable. Tons of people are not on the map... although of course, Yale EA is amazing and very very impressive. Im sure u guys will all enjoy Yale!</p>
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Masamune, I guarantee that more than 6 from the Bay Area were admitted.
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While I have no inside information, it does not strike me as implausible that there were only 6 Yale EA admits from the Bay Area this year (though it may depend on how one defines the "Bay Area"). </p>
<p>Based on the geographic distribution of undergrads at Harvard (I don't have data for Yale but one would expect it to be comparable), it would be reasonable to assume that about 10%-11% of EA admits are from California. And even if you include the entire population of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties within your definition of Bay Area, the Bay Area only accounts for about 11% of California's total population. If you apply these percentages to the total number of EA admits (i.e., 11% of 10% of 723), you would get an expected number of Yale EA admits from the Bay Area of about 8.</p>
<p>Just another example of how totally and ridiculously hard it is to get into these super selective schools.</p>
<p>Cosar, that's good reasoning, but it ignores one thing: there is a disproportionate number of admits from a rich area like the Bay Area, especially from towns like Palo Alto. Places like Sacramento and Fresno will have far less admits per capita, so to speak, than the Bay Area. </p>
<p>LA and the Bay Area always dominate college admissions in California, and so I would guess the real number would be around 20, or about 30% of total California admits.</p>
<p>Yeah, I sort of find that hard to believe...that only 6 got in. </p>
<p>I definitely think it depends on the definition of Bay Area (but that's all my interviewer said).</p>
<p>There are super competitive schools like 5 minutes away from me which I'd expect to send about 3 kids each to Yale : Lynbrook, Harker, Palo Alto, Gunn, Saratoga, and Monta Vista (my school). Soo I'm sure there has to be more from other areas of the Bay Area too...</p>
<p>Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but can anyone explain why 47-49% is the magic number for all of these schools? There doesn't seem to be an obvious logical reason for this percentage of students to be taken from the EA pool.</p>
<p>If the number was above 50%, then it would clearly indicate that the RD round was more or less a meaningless lottery.</p>
<p>I got in early from the Bay Area too!
NorCal represent...</p>
<p>However, I would have appreciated the mention of Los Gatos as one of the awesome high schools too.... Everybody thinks we're just stoner skateboarders... well we are... but we also get in EA to Yale.</p>
<p>woot woot</p>
<p>p.s. my interview gave me the same "only 6 from bay area admitted" fact too... and it couldn't possibly be true.</p>