<p>Callthecops2: your experience highlights just how competitive the International pool really is. I’m suprised at fbc001’s calculation of the international EA admit rate. I would have thought it to be lower since I assumed there would be in any case no more than 130 international spots for the class of 2010. </p>
<p>It seems to have been deliberate policy for several years now to limit the international composition of the undergraduate student body at Harvard, Princeton and Yale to 9-10% of the total student body. This is still extremely generous given the finanacial aid implication of international admits and is therefore unlikely to change very much. Given a 1500 member class, 9 % translates into about 130 spots. Of these spots about 60 seem consistently to be filled by students from China and Korea, leaving about 70 for the rest of the world. </p>
<p>It struck me that the vast majority of the EA international admits that were posted on CC seemed to be from China and thus reasoned that given the diversity driver, there were enough EA applicants from SE Asia for Yale to select statistically the most promising. This leaves the deferred international EA’s exactly that, deferred not deselected until they can be compared with the rest of the International pool. On paper I can see almost no difference between the credentials of the EA international admitted and the EA international deferred. Hence my conclusion that flowertjes odds are not all that bad.</p>
<p>Comments anyane?</p>