<p>Dear tokenadult,
My D and I attended an info session last night in Milwaukee and your post is very reflective of our experience. Thank you for taking the time to share with CC, we had to drive 3 hours to Milwaukee and if we had not been able to attend, your post would have really given us all the information we needed. It is a very kind (time consuming) thing to share. I don’t know you, but I like you!
I thought Debra Johns was excellent, especially given how new she is new to Yale. She did say that she is the reader for one county in New Jersey and Minn, Wisc plus a small piece of either Illinois or Indiana (for the ccers in Ill and Indiana sorry my notes are bad!) She said that the one county in New Jersey has more applications than the combined three Midwestern states she reads.
My only other comment is that I believe she is wrong about applying to the University of Wisconsin Madison if you apply Yale SCEA. She told the group that they must receive their decision after Jan 1 so they need to time their application carefully. I believe that the University of Wisconsin - Madison is a “normal” rolling school and that applying now (or already) should not jeopardize SCEA as I read the Yale website. My D is not applying to Madison so I will not pursue further, but if you or your child is applying to Yale SCEA and to UW Madison rolling, I would call Yale before deciding to delay (revoke?) my UW Madison application, because I think Ms. Johns was not quite right on this issue. Overall though she appeared to be very knowledgeable, bright and engaging. I am glad we attended.</p>
<p>Yes, I should check that detail about Yale’s rules on SCEA (which I’ll do right after lunch here). Getting a rolling admission application into a Big Ten state university is a very good strategy for Midwestern students also applying to highly selective Ivy League colleges.</p>
<p>I, too, heard Ms. Johns offer this opinion regarding UW-Madison’s compatibility with SCEA, although she did not seem certain about it. I believe she was not fully aware of the rolling admissions exception to Yale’s SCEA policy.</p>
<p>From [Early</a> Action FAQ | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html]Early”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html)</p>
<p>If you are an applicant to Yale under the Single Choice Early Action program, **you may not apply to any early admissions program that notifies candidates before January 1, whether or not that program is binding. However, you may apply to another college’s early notification program under certain conditions. First, **you may apply to a public university’s “rolling” admission program if the program is non-binding <a href=“meaning%20that%20you%20have%20until%20May%201%20to%20respond”>/B</a>. Second, you may apply to a college with an early deadline for scholarship awards, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. Finally, you may apply to another college’s “Round 2 Early Decision” program, but only if notification is after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s “Round 2 Early Decision” program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.</p>
<p>Thanks, Descartesz, that was my memory of Yale’s policy from last year, and I appreciate you quoting chapter and verse from this year. That is much like Stanford’s SCEA policy. (Yale and Stanford are the only two colleges that have SCEA.)</p>
<p>Two years ago my D did SCEA at Yale and rolling at both UMichigan and UWisconsin, no problems whatsoever.</p>
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<p>Haha, I’m from that county. That’s a funny statistic, although given the area’s public school systems, not very surprising.</p>