<p>that’s what i meant, i was talking about the SCEA pool sorry.</p>
<p>but yes i’d like to see how this goes… i hope it works in your favor too! somehow i hope MIT is involved in this so it can work in my favor (:</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I think that you will benefit from MIT’s lack of involvement (:D) in that there should be a decrease in EA applicants due to a substantial number of students opting for the new SCEA options; applications, probably top-notch ones, will be directed away from MIT.</p>
<p>that is what i like to hear!! i’m glad MIT has EA 
i couldn’t wait until april (even though i have to for four schools, four have EA and one has EE)</p>
<p>i hope you get into princeton (again lol). i want everyone to get into their top choice!</p>
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<p>Yup! You can find out before RD… you just can’t find out before SCEA decisions are out, which is in mid-Dec. I applied to USC by the scholarship deadline, as well as another school which had an early scholarship deadline, and also Yale SCEA. This is perfectly acceptable, and would be for Pton too.</p>
<p>You can also apply to public schools that have early deadlines, like the UCs.</p>
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<p>Ditto, though I wonder if I’d feel differently were I applying in the next few years. I think the addition of HP SCEA may increase admissions odds at YS (and HP for those applicants who are already strong candidates) because it will be a more significant indicator of interest. Viable HYPS candidates are likely to have a “favorite” of those four, and without HP early options, it wasn’t possible to tell which truly loved YS or were just hoping for an early “in” at a top school before applying to their true first choice. Now, SCEA will mean “This is where I want to go,” and I think that could seriously change the admissions process for the tippy-top most applicants.</p>
<p>Two of the “most desirable colleges” for tippy-top applicants bringing back early programs is a great thing. I’m a senior right now who totally wishes they did this a year ago!</p>
<p>Some good things that come out of this…</p>
<p>People who want HP can hear before April 1st. </p>
<p>This will impact early round admissions at other competitive schools:
Y and S (as many people have mentioned)-An SCEA Y and S applicant whose true first choice is H or P will drop out of the SCEA Y or S round.
MIT, Georgetown, Chicago, Michigan, BC, Villanova, Notre Dame, UNC, other Early Action schools-HP hopefuls wont be applying to these schools EA anymore as backups
Other Ivies ED, Duke, other top ED schools-Sure, many HP hopefuls refrained from applying to schools ED to other schools, but there is a good chance that some of them applied to say, Columbia ED. </p>
<p>This will impact RD applications at competitive schools:
Those accepted to H or P SCEA most likely won’t be submitting apps to Duke, Northwestern, Georgetown, etc. Those are a few of the schools I applied to, and I personally would have loved knowing that HP acceptees (read: tippy-top applicants) were out of the running. Of course admissions would still be competitive RD but still.</p>
<p>so what would you say would be the amount of people they would admit via EA? yale has like 15 percent but would applying Harvard SCEA really give you an edge or will we see a ridiculous amount of people doing EA as well just for the hell of it.</p>
<p>I prefer the rolling admission way better.</p>
<p>same ^ 10 char</p>
<p>“Harvard admissions folks looked at trends and concluded that some highly talented students were choosing early action programs elsewhere, potentially weakening Harvard’s pool.”</p>
<p>“I think Harvard saw Columbia as a threat with its 9k app increase”</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>Other Ivies ED, Duke, other top ED schools-Sure, many HP hopefuls refrained from applying to schools ED to other schools, but there is a good chance that some of them applied to say, Columbia ED. "</p>
<p>In total agreement with all of these above statements. For me though, Columbia was my top choice with Harvard as a close second. I must say though, that if Harvard had SCEA this year, I may have been tempted, especially considering I am a Harvard legacy and I could have applied RD to Columbia after potentially getting into Harvard SCEA</p>
<p>Have heard from many that Columbia was going after (and getting) some URMs that Harvard wanted. Think next year will be very interesting to see how this whole thing shakes out.</p>
<p>^Totally. Can’t tell you how many letters I got from the URM recruitment committees at both schools</p>
<p>Joso2015 - mind my asking your ethnicity?</p>
<p>They couldn’t have done this a year earlier?</p>
<p>I wonder whether they’ll defer a ton of people like Yale, or model it more on Stanford’s program by mostly just rejecting people.</p>
<p>What was the last year they offered ED? Fall 2005?</p>
<p>Last year Harvard offered ED/EA was for Class of 2011</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-2011/[/url]”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-2011/</a></p>
<p>4,008 - Applications
859 - Admits
21.4% - Admit Rate</p>
<p>(note: same source gives another figure, 875, for Admits)</p>
<p>Yay that means I can get rejected earlier instead of waiting anxiously. : D</p>
<p>What were the statistics for year before the class of 2011?</p>
<p>They couldn’t have made this life-changing decision one year ago? I totally would have applied Early Action to Princeton, even if it meant getting bad news sooner.</p>