<p>Last year Yale accepted 19.7 % of their EA applicants, whereas this year they accepted 18.1 % (a difference of 1.6 %). Now how does that compare to the 36% increase in applications? If they had + 1/3 applicants, and accepted the roughly the same percentage as last year, then they accepted (quantitatively) more applicants during the EA round of class of 2012 than the EA round of class of 2011. Am I right? Can somebody verify or correct my rationale? Statistically speaking, it seems that Yale has been fairly generous this year, adapting its numbers to the increased numbers of applicants…</p>
<p>I think its just because this year yale wants to beat harvard and princeton in the yield rate race, so they decided to try to lure more great applicants early.</p>