<p>Admission addict: Thanks for posting the thread</p>
<p>Financial aid is a big concern for us. Even few thousand dollars makes an impact on our budget and every penny helps. If Yale goes for questbridge route and consider those applicants, we hope it will be a tremendous boost for my kid chances since she was a finalsit for questbridge but chose not to get that college match route. I hope that they look for this information in her application and consider this part along with her other achievements and may give her admission. Thanks</p>
<p>Depending on financial aid, kids choices are changed for even number one school on their list and other choices may emerge higher. This is ground reality based on how much money one receive in aid and how much parent can afford.</p>
<p>I feel the whole Harvard/Princeton reasoning is whack. Eliminating EA or ED will do nothing for the recruitment of more lower-income students. The only way to do that is to look at income the same as they look at minority status, legacy, athletics, geographic representation, etc... It's incredbily simple. I predict H&P will go back to EA and ED within a year or two.</p>
<p>UVA has the Jefferson scholorship (as well of some other scholorships) that covers full costs to attend for all four years. its a good deal if you are willing to settle on UVA over an ivy league school. P.S. UVA is very homogenous...not much going on in cha-ville, but i'm biased, i don't like UVA for some reason i can't discern.</p>
<p>Yale's EA yield will go down for two reasons. They will lose cross admits who would have been admitted to Harvard early and consequently never applied to Yale. They will get kids whose first choice is Harvard applying EA to Yale that will go to Harvard in the RD round.</p>
<p>I don't see how Yale's EA yield could fall significantly - how many kids could possibly be admitted to Harvard (or Princeton) RD after gaining a Yale SCEA admittance and end up choosing Harvard or Princeton? If the yield drops a percentage point or two, why would it matter? I'm sure Yale will be fully enrolled come fall. I also don't see why anyone needs to feel badly for UVA. Maybe I've stepped into the wrong universe here.</p>
<p>"UVA expected many other schools to follow the lead of Harvard and Princeton and they jumped on the bandwagon early hoping to get some free publicity."</p>
<p>Weird, I JUST had a conversation about this with my mom today.</p>
<p>I am so happy that Harvard and Princeton did away with their EA program because obviously, now I will not have to take such a huge risk. I'm going to apply to Yale SCEA, and if I'm accepted, I am going to apply RD also to Harvard and Princeton, POSSIBLY just for the heck of it, as I'm 90% positive that Yale will be my first choice. But of course, there will be MANY students taking advantage of this imbalance and choose Harvard, Princeton, etc. later on. I can completely see where the article is coming from. Although this quote: "Yale’s early option could give the University a slight boost in its yield...as Yale will have more time to convince accepted students to attend." kind of makes it sound like Yale does have an advantage. I mean, I'm sure if I am accepted that I would utilize most of my time researching Yale and its courses, resources, etc.</p>
<p>Sigh. But I say - WHO CARES, as long as I get the early action plan for Yale! It's honestly my first choice school as of right now. But...whatever happens will happen. I kind of think that this is going to be a huge headache for the admissions committees though.</p>