Unbalanced SAT Scores

Idiosyncra3y
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:55:20 +0000

Wait… hold on… We must be looking at different stats here?
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Yale admitted 742 early action applicants out of 5,556 early applicants, for an acceptance rate of 13.4 percent. Yale admitted 1,209 out of its 20,444 regular decision applicants. Factoring in the 2,644 students deferred for early admission into the regular applicant pool, the regular admit rate is 5.4 percent.
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[Admissions Statistics 2008](ivysuccess.com)
Admittedly the EA group is a fairly self selecting bunch, so maybe that is what you are talking about? I can see it both ways:

1) Only admit EA who you would have DEFINTELY admitted RD so that you get the best class
2) Admit more EA because - by applying EA - they have shown that Yale is what they want, and you will get a better yield.

Damn, now I am confused…

On the OP, I had 690R 750C and 800M last year. Not as badly skewed as yours but similar… I re-wrote with some more revision and focus on CR and W and got 780 and 790 respectively. You are obviously pretty damn clever, so you should be able to get 750+ for CR with some more work. My advice? do it, unless you do not think you can get a higher score…