<p>Is EA as advantageous as SCEA or not? If I applied EA, I get a statistical advantage. If I apply SCEA, it shows that I'm serious on applying to that school.</p>
<p>I want to study engineering. I have no personal preference between the two choices.</p>
<p>Don't side with MIT+Caltech just because I want to study engineering.</p>
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<p>the question should be- how hard are you willing to work and do you want the opportunity to study anything else besides engineering? MIT and Cal Tech have the well deserved reputation of being brutally hard during the UG years in comparison to any other top university- the Drinking H2O from a fire hose analogy is only used to describe those 2 schools. So do you welcome that sort of challenge? If so apply EA to those schools. If you’d rather not be forced to work much , much harder than you ever have in your life, then apply to Yale or Stanford[ which has a better engineering school than Yale]</p>
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<p>Only if you’re an exceptional applicant, one that would be accepted from ANY applicant pool:</p>
<p>[Early</a> admit rate rises slightly | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/dec/15/early-admit-rate-rises-slightly/]Early”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/dec/15/early-admit-rate-rises-slightly/)</p>
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<p>Y could fill it’s fr class several times over with outstanding students, they don’t care about interest/seriousness.</p>
<p>MIT & (presumably) Caltech make an effort to make their EA admission % the same as their RD. Pretty sure about this for MIT. Not so sure for Caltech.</p>
<p>entomom brings up a very valid point- NONE of the most selective colleges care how much a student wants to be accepted. An applicant is not dealing from a position of strength, when there are thousands of other students vying for the same spot.</p>