<p>Yale accepts 17% of the 3,800 who apply early. Yale however does not defer almost everyone it does not accept early, as does Harvard. Yale, rejects early 33% of the remaining applicants who were not accepted early, and defers the other 67%. Of those who are deferred, approxinately 11% of them are accepted in the regular round.
Harvard has about the same number of applicants who apply early and accepts around the same number as Yale. Harvard however only rejects 5% of the applicants early and defers everyone else. Harvard however also only accepts about 10% of those who were deferred in the regular pool.</p>