Just a secret about SCEA and deferrals

powerbomb
Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:20:28 +0000

Even if the OP is telling the truth, there is no way that this year was the only year that this happened. If this sort of initially-accept-more-than-the-number-of-applicants-we-can-accept type of thing happened this year, it happened last year, it happened two years ago, and it will happen next year. The # of admissions in the RD round, if this was true, already accounts for this, and has always been the case.

As someone who has not applied to Yale early, it is quite amusing to see so many deferees trying to extract some sort of relief from this crap.