<p>seriously? The SCEA admit rate dropped this year but RD went up?? I thought they both went down.
Man…13% is still pretty scary.
I want to apply SCEA because I genuinely like Yale but I’m quite scared about getting outright rejected. Oh well, I guess I’d rather be rejected early and have time to fall in love with another school…maybe?</p>
<p>Next Year I will predict the same 13% for EA and a slightly raised RD %. </p>
<p>Yale’s RD is probably the single hardest one to get, along with perhaps Stanford’s, because Yale gets close to the highest number of applicants among the superselectives and has already filled up a significant portion of its class. It’s probably the single most FUBAR college admissions. Therefore if you are serious about going to specifically Yale and know you have among the best credentials, I would apply SCEA. Otherwise deferjection is just so likely. </p>
<p>I think right now the best deals are he nonrestrictive EAs. Like UChics. Find 4 of them and apply to all of them early. Then do HPYS RD.</p>
<p>Smile: My good friend got deferred and then waitlisted now at Yale - she says the whole waitfck has been about at pleasant as dying a slow cancerous death compared to the lethal injection. Just something to keep in mind.</p>
<p>I doubt that SCEA gives applicants any real boost. The people they take SCEA are those they know, know would get in regular. If you are one of those people, and you apply early, you’ll get a notification of your decision accelerated by a few months; if you are not one of those people, you’ll be deferred to RD or rejected just like RD.</p>
<p>My regional ASC person said that our SCEA kids are far more impressive as a whole, and there are usually a few outstanding people in the RD round, while the rest are the people who are like, “What the heck, I’ll apply to Yale.” I’m not saying this is true nationwide.</p>
<p>ya but if deferred SCEA, then you’re into the regular pool, so it obviously can’t hurt to apply early if Yale’s where you want to be, right? Or do you have less change in the RD pool if you were deferred early…?</p>
<p>I second Nick017’s opinion. Only apply if you’re confident that your portfolio is stellar and if you can demonstrate substantial interest in Yale.
Otherwise you’re better off EA-ing to some other places. The EA pool is very competitive, and if the point of EA, partially, is to take some stress off your senior year, then you should apply to places that you can possibly get in.</p>
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<p>I would personally recommend applying early. I was blessed to be admitted under RD and loooking at the numbers afterwards all i could think of was the abysmal rate of acceptance. In the EA round there is more competiveness but many applicants also get deffered so there is really no harm unless you absolutely are not going to get in, in which case your Yale process gets ended early and you can focus on other schools.
The RD rate was 5.4% can you imagine what it might be like in future years?</p>
<p>when looking at the numbers, remember that many athletic recruits go EA driving up the acceptance numbers. Don’t know for a fact, but wouldn’t be surprised if other special categories of applicants e.g. developmental ,also tend to go EA.</p>
<p>question: let’s say i apply EA to yale and get deferred. can i send in additional test scores so that i can improve my application in the RD pool?</p>
<p>Yes, as long as they were taken within the required dates for regular decision testing.</p>
<p>@Cougar10: Yes, but it prolly won’t make much of a difference</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen at my school whcih normally sends quite a few to Yale, almost everyone who gets in got in EA. No one who got deferred got in regular, and I was the only person who got in regular (as compared to the 7 or so peopl ewho got in EA)</p>
<p>That said, most of th estrong people applied EA, but I still think EA gave peopl ean advantage.</p>
<p>And, to counter that, the students I have seen admitted at Yale in the past 5-6 years have been pretty evenly divided among EA admits, EA deferreds admitted RD, and RD applicants.</p>
<p>I think it’s easier in the sense that you get two “looks” from admissions. You’ve got a chance in the fall, and if deferred you have an additional chance in the spring.</p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, what are “developmental” applicants? I’ve heard of athletic recruits, children of alumni and donors, etc… but not of those. I need to spend more time on CC, lol. :P</p>
<p>“Out of curiosity, what are ‘developmental’ applicants?”</p>
<p>“Developmental” admits is another term for a person admitted for developmental reasons. Slightly different from a legacy. ;)</p>
<p>Think, a legacy whose family has given or could have given money enough to make a <em>significant</em> fundraising difference to the university would be a developmental admit, that is, someone that will make the Development office (fundraisers) happy. </p>
<p>Worth pondering: a category that might be quite small, but is, I think, likely to increase in the future could be developmental admits with international connections. </p>
<p>Developmental reasons could also include the ability of applicant, applicant’s family and connections, to make a big difference in Yale ties with another country, for example.</p>