Accepted SCEA and submitted application on 11/1

D_yer_Maker
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:24:23 +0000

Not look at them? No way. The SCEA process is designed to give Yale an edge at yielding the most amazing students. It’s not a matter of failing in some duty owed to applicants – it’s a matter of failing to fulfill their main objective in offering SCEA.

Now…that said…it’s possible that, given the time constraint, they only gave the full in-depth review to applicants whose jacket files contained one, two or more “flags” – like URM, legacy, recruited athlete, Intel, etc. But they definitely looked at all the files and got to the ones that they felt they needed to get to at this stage of the game.

Pretty much every time management and organizational manifesto says that you should touch paper only once (this rule is so important that it typically comes right behind “You should not spend time on College Confidential”) so I don’t see how they can look at the entire SCEA pool completely and thoroughly in November and then give ithe 3,000 deferrals from that pool the same attention once again in the RD round.

That would mean effectively increasing their workload by 3,000 applications.

I can’t fathom that being the case. So they either give them all a full reading in November and have a good idea where they stack up going into the RD round OR they only made a quick check of many of the deferrals in November and read only enough to decide that they’ll defer the full reading until, well, starting now I suppose. Maybe there are other options. Maybe Jeffrey Brenzel has explained the process in excruciating detail and it’s none of the above. I’m simply suggesting that there is some germ of truthiness to the idea that the deferred applications might not have gotten a full read-through at this point even though I’m convinced that they got enough of a review for Yale to have made an informed, intentional choice when they put them in the deferred pile.