Yale SCEA vs Yale RD for international student?

MariaScott
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:13:45 +0000

Thank you for your help @gibby and yes, I do understand that international students don’t have the same chances as US students.

I come from one of the smallest, richest countries in the world (35,000 residents), that’s why every year we only have maximum 4 or 5 Ivy League applicants. I don’t even think that in the past 10 years someone has even applied to, for example, Yale or Princeton - everyone’s choices have always been Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, UPENN and Brown (and we’ve had a few acceptances in the past years).

Overall, are you saying that coming from such a small country will harm me in SCEA and will perhaps be more interesting (or even more of a hook) in RD?