Yale SCEA vs Yale RD for international student?

gibby
Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:04:27 +0000

First off, you need to understand that international applicants do NOT have the same odds as US applicants.

Yale, and their peers (the rest of the ivies, Amherst, Stanford, MIT et al) restrict international students to about 11% of their incoming class. So at Yale, with a freshman class of about 1300 students, that means there will only be about 143 matriculating international students per year – and most of those applicants will be from 6 countries (Canada, Great Britain, Australia, China, Korea and Japan). So, your odds of being accepted as an international student applying from a country not represented at Yale in the past 25 years are next to zero. That’s true for you and your classmates, no matter what stats you or they may have.

You should speak to your guidance counselor and find a college that HAS accepted students from your country more recently and apply to that college EA or SCEA and then apply to Yale RD.