<p>=) that’s mighty confident, pigs. you in the lucky 500?</p>
<p>seee i did it =]
THAT LUCKY 500 DOES NOT EXIST</p>
<p>^i know. i was being facetious. </p>
<p>NICE. but now your name bar is disturbingly long.</p>
<p>heh yepp it is</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Does Yale really only accept 1300 students? I remember reading somewhere the number was around 2000, so that would leave 800, not 100 students left to admit, granted this 500 students thing is true. </p>
<p>Anyway, why would a higher EA rate, but lower RD rate affect Yale’s ranking? The overall acceptance should remain constant, and after people see the boost in EA acceptances, they will want to apply, brining Yale’s acceptance rate down again. Of course, by moving people to the RD pile, they affect the acceptance rate by a smaller margin… so maybe that’s why?</p>
<p>yale is trying to keep it’s early action and its regular decision acceptance rates pretty steady at the moment</p>
<p>also, there were fewer people applying early this year, so accepting those 500 do raise the overall acceptance rate significantly to like 25% i think, which would be ridiculous. people would be going crazy saying that they should have applied to yale early and whatnot. i don’t think yale wants that hassle and doesn’t want to give people the impression that applying early really helps</p>
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<p>and cadillac, your math is correct. i just looked it up. still, i believe it to an extent, but not fully.</p>
<p>powerbomb may be right i can only verify that this happened this year</p>
<p>it may just be a norm that occurs with yale early admisions</p>
<p>haha i contemplated that too, working in admissions after graduation 
but i decided it would probably be better to get a (good) job first, especially if there are companies recruiting college seniors, then go back to being an adcom, lol.</p>
<p>yes, yale will accept 1300 in the RD round. so roughly 800 if this 500 thing is true.</p>
<p>okay, but still… 800 out of the 25,925 TOTAL applications that Yale receives RD? (numbers from class of 2013) 1300 seems like a more plausible number to me
and again… why would yale tell a high school?</p>
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thanks but that just makes me feel worse</p>
<p>and cadillac is right. yale accepts closer to 2000 applicants overall, expecting a yield of 1300 (because harvard wins the majority of crossadmit battles bahaha)</p>
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<p>haha okay then, fair enough. still dont believe the random 500 applicants thing tho XP</p>
<p>First, if Yale found this out the day before, there is no plausible way to set up admissions notifications and double and triple check their correctness in under 24 hours. This should be common sense.</p>
<p>Second, this is what the counselor was probably really told: There were many qualified applicants this year (they tell everyone this). Your students who were very impressive have a strong chance at being accepted in the RD round (its plausible that the counselor may be told this). Further, the admissions office may have clarified the process to the counselor. Each cycle, Yale roughly creates “piles” for applications and its very feasible that 1200 applications made it into the “serious second look” pile. After this, the process fairly narrowed it down to 700. Yes, those other 500 are very qualified, but we didn’t have an acceptance stamped on them the day before decisions come out. This explanation could easily be construed by an upset student trying to justify his deferral. The OP may really think what he is saying, but he/she should look at this sensibly and realize it is not possible.</p>
<p>Thank you, Mythbuster! very well worded XD</p>