<p>What do you think would happen to Cornell in terms of matriculation rate/acceptance rate/rank if it went SCEA instead of ED?</p>
<p>an interesting question for sure… i dont think it would have much of an actual effect beyond making the school sound more snobby like princeton and harvard…</p>
<p>I would expect the matriculation rate to drop…Cornell might have to play the tufts syndrome game like WUSTL.</p>
<p>SCEA only become a valuable yield manipulation tool once your yield is good enough to play the game. Your yield has to be good enought to switch over to SCEA.</p>
<p>What’s SCEA?</p>
<p>Single Choice Early Action</p>
<p>You can only apply to that one school early, but it’s not binding</p>
<p>hmmm I see</p>
<p>Do other schools know when you do SCEA at a different college?</p>
<p>And would it hurt one’s chances at a school like Cornell without this to do SCEA at a college that does, like Princeton?</p>
<p>^ Clendenenator: I don’t know if the schools will do this… but elite institutions have been known to communicate with each other and share admissions information (ie, Ivy schools agree that any applicant who back out of an ED acceptance at an Ivy will not be admitted RD to any other Ivy).</p>
<p>RD at Cornell is harder than ED… I think for 2001 the numbers were 17% RD and 38% ED, although I could be wrong.</p>
<p>It would hurt your chances at the SCEA school, not the ED school. ED doesn’t stipulate that you can only apply to one school, only that you enroll if admitted. SCEA stipulates that you apply to one school but not that you enroll if admitted.</p>
<p>think top schools will go to SCED soon?</p>
<p>SCED wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense if you think about it…</p>
<p>SCED would only cause the number of applications to drop, yet its effect on matriculation rate would not be any greater than ED, if you think about it.</p>
<p>haha yeah, heythatslife, that’s what I thought too…</p>
<p>In fact, now that I think about it, it would serve to decrease the matriculation rate because it would decrease the proportion of students who apply and enter by ED.</p>
<p>Why would they make SCED? ED is already Single Choice b/c it is BINDING!!!</p>
<p>ED is not single-choice, actually. Of course you can’t apply to 2 ED schools at once, but you can apply to an ED school and other EA schools simultaneously in the early round. e.g. you would be able to apply to both Cornell and UChicago early, but if Cornell accepted you you would have to go.</p>