Hi! I’m debating between stanford and yale for ea. Since I am a writing/activism student I think that I will have a better chance of getting in ea at stanford than yale since yale applicants are primarily humanities oriented. I’m not sure what I want to major in but I think that stanford’s overall academic excellence will allow me to play around with a bunch of different fields but Yale has been my dream school for reasons I’m not entirely sure about - I just seem to have an emotional attachment to it. What are the pros and cons of ea at stanford and yale respectively? Any help would be greatly appreciated! 
I never got the activist vibe from Stanford it seemed more like a tech start up kind of place, yes I state the obvious. It’s not even close to Berkeley’s activist campus so if your looking for things you share in common (activism) then I would try Yale.
I doubt Stanford will be an easier admission. And while I’m not alumnus, I’m a neighbor, activism and protests appear seldomly on campus to the best of my knowledge.
@1001stdaffodil - These are such different schools, but thinking that you’d have a comparative advantage applying to Stanford EA because fewer humanities apply to Stanford than Yale is false. Stanford EA offers no admissions advantage. This is clear from Stanford’s own admissions data and based on personal anecdotal experience. A nephew applied this past year EA as a prospective humanities student, was waitlisted, and was subsequently admitted RD. But SCEA at Yale is also extremely competitive, and only students whose applications are complete, and who present the strongest possible profile of academic achievement, community service, extracurriculars and letters of recommendation, should apply SCEA if they don’t have any “hooks.”
My advice: If you want to get into any college with a competitive admissions process, it will be critical that you become intimately familiar with the school’s culture, majors, faculty, and surrounding community, and be able to clearly state with conviction in your essays, short answers and interviews, what specific aspects of that college make you an ideal “fit” for that school. That knowledge will also help you choose a college where you will feel “at home” and flourish for the four short years you are there. Best of luck!
Right, you have lots to learn about both colleges, before applying to either. Assumptions won’t cut it.
You post with no details, so we have no idea if you’re even qualified for either.