Some admission questions, misconseptions

gibby
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:19:32 +0000

With HYPS all having SCEA, applicants have to choose their favorite school when applying early. Just because there are no Harvard, Princeton or Stanford applicants in Yale’s early pool, does not mean the competition for a slot is diminished or somewhat less intense. I think there are plenty of competitive students to go around.

Yes, some students may overreach early at all of those schools, but I imagine that those overreaching students are easy to weed-out because they seem so out of place. It’s not a crap-shoot for the over-reachers.

The crap-shoot aspect of admissions, at least from my viewpoint, comes into play with competitive applicants. Yale and HPS, in theory, could fill all of their seats from the early pool, but they don’t. So, it’s more of a crap-shoot for competitive students. You just don’t know if you will be accepted or deferred.