possible for Yale SCEA to be harder than RD????

[ImmanuelKant]

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Yale outright rejects a fairly small percentage of SCEA apps, meaning anyone with a realistic shot of admission (but who isn’t amazing enough to get in early) is deferred, and considered along with the RD pool - the same pool with which they would have been compared had they simply applied RD.

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<p>This is very true indeed. I have a friend who was deferred SCEA and accepted RD. Yale will bump you a little in their RD pool if you show commitment to the school by applying SCEA. So even if it’s a harder, more selective pool in SCEA itself, the advantage of SCEA materializes in the RD pool for those marginal (with respect to Yale’s tough, tough standards) applicants.</p>