Yale SCEA-not worth it

T26E4
Sun, 09 Aug 2015 13:15:24 +0000

What do you mean bogus? It’s plain what its purpose is – for a select few students, who feel their first six semesters’ work is sufficient and who can prepare the rest of the app package by Nov 1, they can apply SCEA and get a admit/defer/reject decision by Dec 15. That’s the whole of it. For some people, that’s a great opportunity. For others, it’s not that attractive.

Nothing bogus about it. No promises of higher admit – only an early evaluation. You want it? Go for it. You don’t want it or your app isn’t ready, then let it pass.

Vandy has ED – so if you apply, you’re 100% committed. Does ED at vandy confer an advantage? I dunno. But SCEA or ED is only for your absolute first choice. You have two – so you have no clear #1 and thus, I would advise against ED Vandy and only non-binding SCEA Yale if you’re stuff is ready in time.