<p>Are there any stats available on the % EA applicants admitted EA?</p>
<p>704/3933 students = 17.9% accepted
47% deferred
33% rejected
lowest EA admit rate in Ivy this year with Harvard #2 at 21%</p>
<p>Source: Yale Daily News 1/10/2005</p>
<p>There were 3,892 completed EA apps, as 36 of the originally-claimed 3,931 were incomplete, and 3 others were withdrawn.</p>
<p>So the "real" EA admit rate was 18.1%</p>
<p>Similarly, for the Class of 2008, the press release claimed that 4,050 EA apps were received; but after netting out those which were incomplete or withdrawn, there were actually 3,965 EA apps.</p>
<p>Hmm, that's odd -- when I was deferred, it gave us statistics. I remember it was 16.5% accepted (I don't remember the deferred/rejected breakdowns, though).</p>
<p>The funny thing was, the three numbers added up to like 97.5, not 100.</p>
<p>Byerly, then what is Harvard's EA acceptance rate taking into consideration withdrawn and incomplete apps?</p>
<p>"A total of 885 students were admitted to the Class of 2009 from an Early Action pool of 4,213. Last year, 902 of 3,889 were admitted early. Harvard's nonbinding Early Action program allows admitted students to apply to other institutions, compare financial aid offers, and inform Harvard of their final college choice on May 1, the national common reply date.</p>
<p>......</p>
<p>On Dec. 14, decisions were communicated to the 89 percent who opted for e-mail notification, and on Dec. 15 decision letters were mailed to all applicants. In addition to the 885 admitted students, 3,120 were deferred, 135 were rejected, 63 were incomplete, and 10 withdrew. "</p>
<p>I can't believe that they only outright rejected 135 people! That's insane, what kind of hope does that give the people who were deferred?</p>
<p>In recent years, EA deferreds have been admitted at roughly the same rate as "original" RD applicants.</p>
<p>hopefully they'll admit more EA deferred kiddies this year....for the sake of yield :D</p>
<p>Unfortunately enough, Harvard doesnt really need to play too many yield games :(</p>
<p>The RD yield rate is around 70% or so.</p>
<p>well, whatever they do- they should open up an extra spot for me...that's all i care about :D</p>
<p>Harvard is ABSURD for rejecting so few people.</p>
<p>Only in the sense that, like sucharita said, they really don't need to play yield games like that. Surely not all of the ~3,000 EA deferees are truly considered "borderline" cases.</p>
<p>they aren't...but they defer them all anyway in case the RD pool completely sucks I guess</p>
<p>How ridiculous. It's really not nice to keep people on the fence like that.</p>
<p>Yikes, why is there a discussion of Harvard admit rates here??I thought I was on Yale board! I'd think not too many applied to both, or would care about both. Go to the Harvard board to discuss stats on Harvard, please--waste of time otherwise.</p>
<p>good point Bettina....
hmmm lets see...yeah I'm right...it started the minute Byerly posted :p</p>