Yale Deferred SCEA Vs. Yale Regular Decision

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The first is the group of kids who the admissions officers already know will get in RD. For some reason, yale (under brenzel) has taken the stance that the majority of the enrolled class should be from the RD round - even though SCEA is nonbinding. (Yale only takes the SCEA kids who they know they absolutely want and don’t want to lose to other schools. They hope that by giving them their first admission, they will fall more in love with yale and ultimately matriculate.) The only reason these kids are not in the SCEA group is that Yale admissions is not incredibly worried about losing these kids to other schools when they ultimately accept them in the RD round and, for statistical purposes, would rather defer them to make the RD round acceptance rate higher (and SCEA rate lower) and make the RD round seem more open than it actually is. SCEA gets a bad rep for being tilted in favor of the privileged - which it isnt given yale’s fantastic financial aid and the nonbinding nature of SCEA.

I’m skeptical of this idea, because I know that at least some legacies are admitted during SCEA.</p>