<p>As for winter break, I plan on reading (Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut and Siddhartha by Hesse), playing video games (Guild Wars 2 is my guilty pleasure), and relaxing with family and friends. I have to give an individual oral commentary for my IB World Literature class on the morning of the day I return from break, so I’ll probably be preparing for that, too :-S </p>
<p>@ViridisFloe I have my oral commentary too 
Winter break seems so far away from now though, because we have all our tests/assignments next week so once I survive that, I don’t plan on doing anything productive for the next three weeks </p>
<p>@viridisfloe I gotta do my IOC before break, thankfully, otherwise I would forget everything. We’re doing Carol Ann Duffy for our poet, how about you?</p>
<p>Also, I’m still playing tons of Disney Fantasia and Bayonetta 2; however, I’m gonna devote Winter Break to finishing several of the games I started throughout the year and did not finish. I’ve got Sunset Overdrive, Halo, The Walking Dead Season 2, and Assassin’s Creed Unity on the PS4…</p>
<p>Oh, and gotta play a ton of Smash, of course :)</p>
<p>Luckily school is basically done for me here. Last week is optional attendance and we finished finals and have all our grades for the semester done. Now I’m only looking forward to Tuesday and playing KSP. Anyone else maybe interested in a Steam Group? </p>
<p>Lol. My winter break is gonna be filled with studying 
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<p>That sucks. My colleagues envy me right now. All of them are studying their asses off for the medical admission tests and the baccalaureate and I’m just sitting here browsing college confidential and drinking tea. But they did make fun of me when I was studying for my SAT’s while they were wasting time. Fortune rota volvitur </p>
<p>@razaza Ha. Same thing happened to me. </p>
<p>But seriously, I’m freaking out right now. I feel that I’m going to get it, emotionally, but rationally I realize the minuscule odds of that happening. And given the fact that Yale only accepts 1 or 2 applicants from my country each year and that I know the profile of the applicants (most of them went to the IMO and other international contests) EA is my best shot. So, fingers crossed. </p>
<p>(Maybe I should switch to Chamomile and Valerian tea lol)</p>
<p>@DaisyBlue
post #810. </p>
<p>That’s incorrect – both numerically and rate-wise. </p>
<p>Last year’s early action: 4692 applied, 992 accepted (21.1%)
This year’s early action: 5919 applied, 977 accepted (16.5%)</p>
<p>I would suppose the uptick in Harvard SCEA apps (+26%) is partially due to the fact that there are +900 kids accepted in their early round in 2013 and it seemed to indicate some advantage over RD.</p>
<p>So, I have a question that I’ve been getting conflicting answers on. Does Yale evaluate international applicants by country? Do they compare the students that apply from a certain country and decide between them (if all of them are academically qualified)?</p>
<p>@razaza Yale reads apps divided by geographic regions (which may or may not encompass one or more countries). How that’s divided is anyone’s guess – and it’s mutable year to year. Thus if nation A and nation B are both in the same Yale defined region, the admits could be A: 2, B: 2 one year and then A: 3, B: 0 the next year. </p>
<p>Here’s another thing – a country may be divided between more than one Yale defined region. For example (only hypothetical – I have no basis for this but am only using this as an example). Let’s say China, Mongolia and Nepal applicants all fall under one region. But for some reason, Hong Kong and Macau fall under the region for Japan and Australia.</p>
<p>Why? Because the main person assigned to Japan and Australia grew up in Hong Kong and used to oversee HK and Macau admissions and has a great knowledge of them – better than the person who oversees the rest of mainland China. Thus, HK and Macau are “carved” out of the region that includes China, Mongolia and Nepal – even though HK is technically part of China.</p>
<p>Again, what I’ve discussed is hypothetical and for illustrative purposes only. I have no info on actual Yale definitions of regions.</p>
<p>@chncsy Okay—it looks like Tuesday after all . . . but there’s always hope for Monday! Other schools have released decisions earlier than their officially announced times, so you never know.</p>
<p>Maybe over the next few days it might help for everyone to think about this time as being like waiting to go on a new, potentially thrilling but also potentially terrifying ride at an amusement park. Other people (like those Harvard SCEA applicants!) were in line ahead of you and went on the ride earlier, but you still have time before it’s your turn. You don’t know how you’ll fare on the ride—it could be great, it could be awful. So even though you’re eager to ride, there should be some comfort in waiting—in not having to go on it (find out) for a while longer. . . .</p>
<p>According the harvard gazette only 892 were accepted early last year@T26E4</p>
<p>@DaisyBlue Harvard’s homepage has an article about its SCEA. It says that 992 were accepted last year, and that 892 was for the class of 2017.</p>
<p>does anyone know the percentage of deferred applicants that ended up being accepted RD? i’m assuming it’s quite low.</p>
<p>@billymayshere I don’t know the exact statistic, but it is close to the RD acceptance rate: 7%.</p>
<p>@T26E4 Thanks a lot. </p>
<p>My mistake guys!</p>
<p>@razaza May I ask where you are from ? 
Are you from France too ? :)</p>