<p>Based on a recent conversation I had with an admission’s director at UCSD, don’t apply to Stanford EA, apply regular decision. </p>
<p>Last week I was at a dinner at a friend’s house and the director of diversity admissions/hispanic excellence outreach (forgot rest of the name) for UCSD was there. The host’s daughter with better stats than yourself told the director of her plan to apply to Stanford EA. The diversity director strongly discouraged her from apply EA. She said that you are judged against the other EA (who usually are above the norm of the applicant pool and their stats) and that Stanford doesn’t really then judge you against the regular decision applicant pool-who would have stats more in line with yours. When the hosts asked about deferral, she said that applying EA to Stanford really reduces your chances. I hope I am making sense but we figured this person was in the know since her whole job was directed at hispanics and getting them into college and medical school. </p>
<p>Obviously where you apply is a personal choice. However since we had just discussed this issue, I thought I would share it with you.</p>