<p>In response to the “worries” about Harvard being swamped with SCEA applications, I imagine that they’ll just defer a massive number of people, and probably focus their attention on the early round on top scorers, etc</p>
<p>yesssssss athletes <3 <3 <3</p>
<p>WOW I’M SO HAPPY.
Harvard’s been my dream for EVER, & I am an ORM. </p>
<p>Just to clarify though…</p>
<p>If I apply SCEA to Harvard, I can’t apply RegEA to another non-binding EA right?</p>
<p>Wow…Harvard will be my safety school. LOL!</p>
<p>“If I apply SCEA to Harvard, I can’t apply RegEA to another non-binding EA right?”
Yes, unless it’s in-state (need to check Harvard’s policy)</p>
<p>idk if someone else said this before but this is probably due to the huge increase in applicants to Columbia after they switched to the common App and Harvard/ Princeton is scared… justsayin’</p>
<p>Harvard’s generous financial aid, coupled with its SCEA reinstatement, and Yale’s decision to decrease FA for middle class parents, will most probably drive more applications Harvard’s way next year.</p>
<p>Harvard 2011-2012 FA: Families that earn less than $60,000 per year pay no tuition. Families earning between $60,000 and $180,000 are typically asked to pay no more than 10 percent of the family’s income. See: [Financial</a> Aid Rises, Tuition at Harvard College To Reach $52,650 | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/25/aid-financial-percent-year/]Financial”>Financial Aid Rises, Tuition at Harvard College To Reach $52,650 | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Yale 2011-2012 FA: Families that earn less than $65,000 per year pay no tuition. Families earning between $65,000 and $130,000 pay 10% of AGI. Families earning between $130,000 and $200,000 will be asked to pay about 15 percent of their income. See: [Cuts</a> to financial aid possible | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/feb/03/yale-could-consider-cuts-to-aid/]Cuts”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/feb/03/yale-could-consider-cuts-to-aid/)</p>
<p>Stanford and Princeton’s FA are not as transparent. Each school supplies a FA calculator, [Princeton</a> University | Princeton Financial Aid Estimator](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/estimator/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/estimator/) and [Financial</a> Aid Calculator : Stanford University](<a href=“Financial Aid : Stanford University”>Financial Aid : Stanford University) Columbia seems to cap the aid at $90,000. See:<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/finaid/enhancements/sample.php[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/finaid/enhancements/sample.php</a></p>
<p>^And also the fact that Yale and Stanford are nabbing some of the really good kids through their early programs.</p>
<p>The fact that the lack of an early program creates a perverse admission system in which athletes seem to be the most prioritized because they receive exclusive likely letter treatment in the fall.
Also the fact that likely letters are devalued by being given to too many athletes as a recruitment necessity.</p>
<p>Also, they realized that, in fact, no one is hurt when they give students the choice to apply early.</p>
<p>The fact that it will increase their yield and perhaps give a hit to the number of early applicants (=higher admission rate) to the main competitor schools, Yale and Columbia.</p>
<p>The fact that they will get more applicants => Lower admission rate</p>
<p>The fact that they will be doing good to the society by decreasing the number of overall applications (=less stress) sent by students for whom Harvard is the first choice and who apply to early programs elsewhere as backups.</p>
<p>im happy for everyone who wants to apply to HP SCEA.
i personally dont like SCEA or ED, but i’m glad from now on HP hopefuls get this opportunity!</p>
<p>Can you apply EA & RD to Harvard ? (assuming you get rejected EA)</p>
<p>^^ Wisdom908: No, if you apply SCEA/EA to any college (not just Harvard) and get rejected, you are done. You cannot apply RD to a college that rejected you EA.</p>
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<p>No, if a student is denied outright in the early round (at Harvard or anywhere else), he or she cannot reapply as a regular decision candidate.</p>
<p>However, a student who is deferred in the early round will automatically be reconsidered in the regular decision pool. There is no need to reapply (although it can be helpful to update admission officials on achievements that took place after the initial application was submitted in the fall.)</p>
<p>^^ Thank you Sally.</p>
<p>Yes, thank you!</p>
<p>does anyone will think the RD poll for HYPMS will be less strong app. next year?</p>
<p>If more people apply early to HYP, then will I have a better chance of getting into MIT, Chicago, and Caltech? I really hope so…</p>
<p>that’s what people are saying^
i mean, i’m applying to MIT EA, so i hope so too :)</p>
<p>Hmm, on the surface I think this seems good. Okay, so basically the number of schools in the “extremely desirable” category that offer SCEA/REA increased from 2 to 4. Even if the total body of applicants to this calibre of university increases by a fair amount, it will be spread across more universities, so theoretically Yale and Stanford should receive less applicants than they have in the past few years so their acceptance rates should increase. I’m not saying that it will be any easier to get into any of these schools, but from a purely numerical perspective, shouldn’t the acceptance rates go up?</p>
<p>they should go up for yale/stanford/the other top schools because they would be admitting the same number of people with a lesser pool.
for harvard/princeton it should go down because they are accepting the same number of people with a larger pool.</p>
<p>Would the pool really become much larger? Wouldn’t many of the students who would have applied RD now simply apply SCEA and thus shift a substantial amount of candidates from one pool to the other? Either way, it will be interesting to see how Harvard and Princeton’s admissions change. I hope to apply to Princeton SCEA for the class of 2016 so I earnestly hope that this decision will be in my favour.</p>