How did SCEA Legacies fare?

cornell75
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:35:37 +0000

I don’t have any statistics but I can tell you my child’s experience. Deferred EA, very strong legacy and strong student as well. Was accepted RD. My gut feeling was that the admissions office didn’t want to “waste” an offer on someone they felt might attend anyway given family history at Yale. EA is a way to get people interested in a school early on, even though it is non binding. Yale also knows that it has a very high yield so they know that many of the people they accept either round will decide to matriculate. So, if they see other candidates that may not have other ties to Yale during EA that they really want to encourage to attend, they may feel it is better to accept that student rather than perhaps being one of many offers that student may receive in April. Just a theory.