SCEA/EA/ED : Harder to get in compared to RD?

speachy
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:23:48 +0000

Lol it took me like 5 whole minutes to find a question other than “And have either of you attended any summer sessions?”

If you mean the SCEA thing, well, I don’t think it’s safe to think one is easier or harder or anything like that. Nobody say that your chance in EA is x% and in RD is y% because well, the sample size is way too small (just one applicant!). If there IS a difference, though, it’s marginal and not worth worrying about.

If a college wants you, they’ll take you. Colleges are pretty darn sure about their EA admits because if they weren’t sure of an applicant, if there was an inkling of doubt, they would just defer. Some schools defer like 60% of applicants.

And high EA admittance rates - 18%, 21% - doesn’t make EA “easier” or anything. A HUGE proportion of the EA admits are recruited, legacy, etc so they were going to get in anyway. It’s very self-selecting.

Moreover a college isn’t going to let the time of applying get in the way of making good decisions (hopefully :S ).

About applying to multiple programs at Stanford - as long as there’s nothing on the program’s website actively discouraging you from doing so, and as long as the application infrastructure allows you to do so, you probably can apply to multiple programs? I don’t know, you should scour the programs’ websites and see if they specifically say anywhere that you can’t apply to multiple. I can’t see a reason why they would say that, though.

And yeah, as far as I know you get your F1 after you get admitted, because you need to be sponsored by your college.