Yale EA vs Princeton ED

stele32
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:45:14 +0000

Your stats are acceptable for the Ivies, but if you say you have only okay ECs, that might enough to stop you from getting into either Yale or Princeton, since most people with stats like that have good ECs to make up for it.

The admissions rate for Princeton for last year was 32% I believe. For Yale, it was 23%/16% (the lower number is from an argument that Byerly made that I think is quite valid). Princeton defers a lot of ED applicants, but out of those deferred, almost no one gets in RD. Yale rejects a lot of EA applicants, but for those deferred, the admissions rate is similar to the EA admissions rate. (14% EA deferred versus 16% EA versus 6% or so for RD.)