<p>[Princeton</a> University - Princeton to reinstate early admission program](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/85/15K32/index.xml]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/85/15K32/index.xml)</p>
<p>Thoughts? Surprised?</p>
<p>Apparently Harvard did the same today. Wow!</p>
<p>I’m not surprised about this especially since UVA took the lead recently and went back to an EA program. UVA, Harvard and Princeton were really the only big name schools that dropped their early admit programs four years ago.</p>
<p>Yale and Stanford were receiving record applications with their SCEA programs, now H & P can lock up some early talent, and the athletic teams can sew up their rosters early without so many likely letters.</p>
<p>They are still going to need the likely letters to get athletes to apply under SCEA rules and not to commit to other programs.</p>
<p>I’ll be applying for the class of 2016, and will definitely be applying ea. This way, I won’t be competing against all of the applicants who are applying to Pton in case they don’t get into Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. Am I right in assuming that this is good for an average (meaning, average by princeton standards) applicant who knows that Princeton is their very first choice? It’s not just meant for athletes and the like?</p>
<p>This stinks. I would have applied early for class of 2015. I am a legacy, and it would have helped.</p>
<p>SCEA makes it hard for applicants to gamble.</p>
<p>What happens if you do SCEA at multiple colleges (i.e. HYP)? Will schools know if you did this?</p>
<p>SCEA is almost similar to ED, so I would not want to run the risk of having the schools find out. </p>
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<p>I think it’s the general consensus on CC that applying early places you in a more competitive pool of applicants.</p>
<p>[College</a> Inc. - Harvard, Princeton return to early admission](<a href=“http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2011/02/harvard_returns_to_early_actio.html]College”>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2011/02/harvard_returns_to_early_actio.html)</p>
<p>But SCEA is non binding, so if you get into both, there wouldn’t be any obvious problem.</p>
<p>Yale’s acceptance rate and Yield for Early Action admittees are 13.9% and 80.0%</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - Yale University - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)
Number of early action applications received: 5,262
Number admitted under early action plan: 729
Number enrolled under early action plan: 583</p>
<p>I wish it had been ED.</p>
<p>Any estimate on the acceptance rate? Will a lot of competitive kids go for Harvard and Yale SCEA instead?</p>
<p>Will Princeton SCEA be more competitive than Chicago SCEA?</p>
<p>I wish it had been ED.</p>
<p>Any estimate on the acceptance rate? Will a lot of competitive kids go for Harvard and Yale SCEA instead?</p>
<p>Will Princeton SCEA be more competitive than Chicago SCEA?</p>
<p>Will this affect athletes? If I apply normally, is there a chance I could still get a likely letter, or should I just apply SCEA?</p>
<p>You’re right, SCEA is non-binding, but I think the name suggests that one can only apply to a single of of such early programs.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read, it would seem that Princeton will go against the norm of allowing students to apply to in-state public schools as well as SCEA. Can anyone confirm or deny this?</p>
<p>GreedIsGood wrote: “But SCEA is non binding, so if you get into both, there wouldn’t be any obvious problem” & "What happens if you do SCEA at multiple colleges (i.e. HYP)? Will schools know if you did this? "</p>
<p>Um, “GreedIsGood”: SCEA stands for SINGLE Choice Early Action–so you cannot apply to 2 SCEA schools! the fact that you’re even asking if anyone would “know” if you applied SCEA to multiple schools (ie, would you get “caught”, right?) makes me just want to say, yeah, go for it … and see what happens. Don’t ruin a gift – pick one of these great schools and apply for it SCEA or if you can’t, wait until RD and apply to all – it’s still your choice; one we are lucky to have and shouldn’t abuse…</p>
<p>Here’s a bold prediction: Princeton’s SCEA program will look pretty much exactly like Harvard’s (and Yale’s). There is no benefit to any of them from being significantly more restrictive than the others with regard to public university applications. I believe that the number of accepted students any of HYP loses to home-state publics annually is in the single digits. (At Stanford, it may be double-digits because of the California-heavy applicant base and the high academic quality of Berkeley and UCLA.) It just doesn’t matter to them, and it would be sort of wanton on their part to put thousands of unrealistic EA applicants at some meaningful disadvantage with respect to colleges that might actually accept them, and where they may actually need to go.</p>