Is early action worth it?

jgraider
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:13:17 +0000

I am going to apply EA just to show my interest and have a better chance of admission. Thanks



First off, Yale doesn’t consider demonstrated interest, and despite the higher acceptance rate, SCEA is not easier to get in to than RD.

Honestly, unless you’re hooked or have some activity/award that will help you stand out from the rest of the qualified SCEA applicants, I wouldn’t recommend using your early applications on Yale, but instead, I would apply to some of your match/safety schools so that you know you will be in somewhere no matter what. That said, if you don’t have any schools that you’re really interested in applying early to, then you might decide that you want to go ahead and give Yale SCEA a shot, because you never know, you might get in December and take a big load off your college stress