Some admission questions, misconseptions

entomom
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:02:09 +0000

Your logic assumes that no hooked applicants were accepted regular decision, which while true for athletes, is not necessarily true for other hooks.



And your logic assumes that other hooked candidates aren’t savvy enough to apply EA. Not true, at least of a couple of applicants I know personally.



I attended an info session at Yale last month. They stated no advantage early. Lots of athletes and truly extraordinary candidates.



[Early admit rate rises slightly | Yale Daily News](http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2009/dec/15/early-admit-rate-rises-slightly/)



“Our applicants continue to be an exceptionally talented, highly diverse group of students,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said in an e-mail. “As always, we only accepted students that we were certain we would also accept in the spring



At least Y keeps trying to spell it out, they can’t help it if people refuse to listen.