2010 SCEA Admission Rate 14.5%

JHS
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:18:25 +0000

The number of early admits has risen for the 5th straight year . . . and this is the fourth straight year since Harvard, Princeton, and UVa ended their early admissions programs. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if it had taken this long for Yale to figure out how that has affected its yield from early and regular admissions. This is also the third straight year of college admissions in a troubled economic climate. Many private colleges have increased the number of students they admit, by a little or a lot, because more students wind up opting for cheaper choices in April. (Some also are squeezing more kids in to generate additional revenue, but that’s not Yale.)

In short, it may not be true – it probably isn’t true – that Yale is admitting more of its class early. What’s more likely is that fewer of the people it admits early are enrolling at Yale, because some of them have always preferred Harvard or Princeton but couldn’t apply there early, and somewhat fewer of the people it admits overall are enrolling. So the early admit numbers go up slightly. Not a big deal.