<p>I was wondering how many of the admitted students under SCEA do actually enroll ? is the yield much higher than for RD ?</p>
<p>pretty sure it’s higher! :)</p>
<p>A LOT of EA’er apply elsewhere also. But then again, there are EA’ers like me that just accept the offer of admission in January.</p>
<p>It has probably gone down a smidge in the past two years, since Harvard abolished EA and Princeton ED. Now it could be a rational strategy to apply EA to Yale even if one prefers Harvard and/or Princeton. Some portion of the EA applicants will be in that position, some percentage of them is likely to be accepted, and some percentage of that percentage will be admitted RD to their first choice college and go there. And, of course, as always, some EA acceptees will change their minds, get offered a mega scholarship elsewhere, etc.</p>
<p>The range probably isn’t all that wide. EA yield is completely unlikely to be lower than overall yield, which is about 70%, and not likely to be a lot higher than Harvard’s yield, which is less than 85%. So I would guess somewhere in the 80-85% vicinity.</p>
<p>You can derive EA yield from the common data set. The values I have:</p>
<p>2005: 88%
2006: 88%
2007: 88%
2008: 80% (first year of RD-only at Harvard and Princeton)</p>
<p>No CDS yet for last year’s entering class.</p>
<p>RD yields at Yale tend to run around 60%. I think they were pleasantly surprised to find their SCEA yields held up as well they did in 2008 and thus were confident about trimming the number of SCEA admissions last year.</p>
<p>^Wow, that is impressive! It’s not really surprising though. :]</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Early admit rate plunges to 13.4 percent](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2008/12/15/early-admit-rate-plunges-to-134-percent/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2008/12/15/early-admit-rate-plunges-to-134-percent/)</p>
<p>yeah 80 percent… thank god for the lower amount of applicant this year the ea accept rate will go slightly up for once</p>