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

idream17
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:44:49 +0000

Well, if you’re referring to the post in which the guys talks about how out of 6 of his friends that applied, four got in, its very subjective. If you read further, he also mentions that those four friends then went on to getting admitted in stanford, MIT and UC Berkeley - all very selective universities - their app must’ve been very strong in itself.
Plus, if you go on to the SUMaC website, you’ll see it mentioned that almost four times the people apply than they have seats available. For a summer program, thats pretty selective.
Anyway, by no means do I mean to say don’t apply. All I’m saying is that you could look into other programs as well.
And about finAid, I don’t know about internationals, but Stanford seems to be pretty generous with aid. I’m sure others will be able to tell you better.