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I would be a bit more optimistic through this extrapolation:

  • 70% of SCEA students rejected, so the deferreds were in the top 30% of applicants.

  • Reasonable to assume they will be in the top 30% of RD + Deferreds, maybe better (20%?) because the SCEA pool has historically been stronger.

  • Total applicants 57k less 8k SCEA means 49k RD applications, add 1.6k (20% of 8k) deferreds = 50.6k considered in RD Pool.

  • 30% of 50.6k = 15.2k; 20% = 10.1k

  • SCEA + Qbridge admitted = 780. Usual admit is 2,200-2,300, so roughly 1,500 spots open. So that gives us a range of about 10% to 15%

Lot of big assumptions here, so being conservative in expectations is probably wiser from an emotional perspective.

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474

I’d really like this math to be correct as my son was in the SCEA deferral group. However, the admissions podcast said that a deferral’s chances of admission were about the same as and maybe slightly better than RD applicants. The deferral letter said the chances were the same as RD. I think the Podcast said every year they see “dozens” (assuming this means a lot less than 100) of deferrals admitted RD. Assuming “dozens” means 3-5 dozen, then that’s about 36-60 deferrals admitted via RD.

I hope your math is more accurate than my interpretation, but you are right that we have tempered hopes - which is emotionally safer.

475

The big unknown which can make my math too optimistic is that within those 10,000 to 15,000 finalists, many may be truly exceptional students who did not SCEA Yale, but perhaps got in REA Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, etc… So while the total RD pool is weaker than the SCEA pool, the top end may be particularly strong.

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476

The question would be whether something like 160-240 admits could plausibly be called “dozens”, and 10-15% only “maybe a little bit better” than around 4% (or whatever their normal RD acceptance rate is).

And maybe, actually, if they are also being conservative in how they describe this.

477

My son did not get an interview, not international. Who knows? Good luck! :rainbow:

478

My son had his interview during ED round and was deferred.

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479

We visited, but not for an official tour (weekend). What is the dorm situation for the different years? Do upper years live “off campus”? It seemed like campus and the city were mixed together, which we liked.

480

Generally guaranteed frosh and sophomore years, but usually available in some form all 4 years. Details on housing here. Housing Policies | Yale Housing

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481

got an idoc req from yale. does this possibly suggest my application was still in consideration then or anything otherwise positive?

482

Im confused, was Yale not on your IDOC from the beginning? It was on mine since I applied.

483

it was on my css but i think they made a request b/c it shows up under
“institutions requesting” along with a few other universities.

484

Did you get an email saying an additional school is requesting documents and then Yale popped up? Again Yale was on my IDOC automatically since the beginning.

485

You got an email saying so, or saw the college name under ur colleges requesting? Cause once you add a college, it shows up there.

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486

no email, but i had like ~20 colleges added on the css profile of which only 3 schools have shown up which is why i was wondering.

487

Only some colleges come up on the list, true.

488

If there was no email then it was there from the beginning

489

I hear a lot about admits getting phone calls from the admissions office. Is this true of every applicant? If we don’t get a phone call does that mean we’re getting rejected?

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490

Never heard of Yale calling in advance other than for those getting likely letters.

491

There was a week or so in early March where some applicants got phone calls from AO and told they are likely getting admitted to Yale. Maybe you mean that?

492

i submitted my parents’ tax returns in their original language and did not know that i had to translate them. but they haven’t asked for the translation. is that a sign that i have been rejected ?