<p>I was encouraged not to apply to Yale EA, and instead to georgetown... obviously this also was influenced by my stats, but i keep hearing about the EA statistics for yale and i was wondering what anyone knew about it.</p>
<p>it seems that in the EA pool at yale, someone who may have been accepted if he had applied RD would be rejected because he is being compared to the people in the EA pool with unbelievably strong stats. in other words, (mostly) everyone who applies early to yale has great stats, but apparently yale tries to keep to the acceptance-deferral-rejection ratio, or something like it, and so if you're the weakest of the strong, you're rejected; whereas you may have had a better chance if you were in the RD pool with the slightly more "normal" candidates. </p>
<p>i hope i made myself clear... any thoughts?</p>
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it seems that in the EA pool at yale, someone who may have been accepted if he had applied RD would be rejected because he is being compared to the people in the EA pool with unbelievably strong stats. in other words, (mostly) everyone who applies early to yale has great stats, but apparently yale tries to keep to the acceptance-deferral-rejection ratio, or something like it, and so if you're the weakest of the strong, you're rejected; whereas you may have had a better chance if you were in the RD pool with the slightly more "normal" candidates.
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<p>No, no, no. In fact, the opposite might be true. I've heard that for many schools, the early applicants are actually somewhat weaker, but they are still accepted at a higher rate. The fact is that it's easier to get into a college if you apply early, all other things held constant. The students realize this (how many students these days don't apply early somewhere?), the counselors realize this, and the colleges don't want to admit this. But in my mind, there is almost no way that someone who would be accepted regular round would be rejected in the early round. AT MOST he would be deferred.</p>
<p>That is what happens at other schools, but the situation is different at the very top ivy league schools like HYP. Unlike schools like Cornell where some applicants can apply with lower stats then the school usually takes, and reach themselves in, the situation at HYP has changed since that book about winning the early decision game was written. At schools like HYP the early applicant pool is much stronger. Many applicants apply in the regular decision round knowing that they might not be that competitive, but for the application fee they might as well take a chance. Of course there will always be top applicants who applied early somewhere else and either did not get in or want to see what their options are so they apply regular decision, and applicants who want to wait and see what their finanical options are, but the applicants at HYP who apply early are for the most part pretty outstanding. This is a different situation at an ivy league like Cornell where applicants have been known to be accepted with lower stats. Schools like Cornell will often accept those with lower stats early to make sure they get a certain yield (ie. the pecentage of those accepted who say yes) since in the regular decision round many they accept may go to HYP ect. At certain schools it is an advantage. HYP, Stanford, MIT ect are not worried about yield. They most likely accept only those who would have been accepted in the regular decision round</p>
<p>Vvx, that's not true. There was recently a post by a mom who told us about her daughter...she got rejected from Yale early but got accepted regular decision to Harvard, MIT, Pomona, Stanford, etc.</p>
<p>It's true. Yale's admissions--and any other top university's--can be really flakey. You could have perfect everything...and still not get in. If you want to go, you should apply. It's as simple as that.</p>