Yale University Early Action for Fall 2024 Admission

Very surprised of all these deferrals given that there were a little over 1500 that were deferred. It’s like half of the deferrals are on CC. Just kidding. So what are the odds now of getting into Yale? Any previous numbers/% of deferred versus admitted or finally denied.

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According to the deferral letter our chances regular are just as good as anyone else. But IMO deferred means beat 70% of those REA, so it seems to indicate relatively competitive.

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Congratulations!

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deferred as well :confused:

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No!

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Brush of the disappointment. Start working on next set of applications. Apply regular decision to next tier schools.

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Are the deferrals unlikely to have interviews as it would have happened already if they wanted more information?

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S24 is good with deferral, so I am too. It kills ED2, but he said he was coming around to the view that maybe committing this early was not a great idea anyway.

And I am glad to hear that. I really think once all his acceptances are in front of him, it will be a different dynamic entirely.

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Yeah, apparently the deferral rate was 20% overall, but only 14% if you take out College Confidential kids . . . .

I think with Yale’s policies on admissions generally, and deferrals specifically, being in such flux, past statistics would be pretty meaningless anyway.

The way we just discussed it, we are treating it as if he was just applying RD fresh (so, first RD application is in!). That feels safest to me, neither overly optimistic nor particularly pessimistic.

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In very general terms, the quality of your acceptances will depend on the quality of your application list. To be more specific, if you currently have a dearth of high matches on your list, consider adding some.

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Same advice. With a profile like that, there is obviously nothing else you can do, or likely could have done, to be more competitive. It is just a crazy dynamic now with admissions to these hyperselective colleges.

But my attitude remains the same: getting into a hyperselective college is only one of many ways to get the benefit of all that hard work and accomplishment. Maybe merit money, maybe being able to choose a really good personal fit, maybe being able to pick your location . . . all these and more are OTHER great ways to benefit.

And they are no less valuable benefits, indeed often likely more valuable, than getting into one of these hyperselective colleges.

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I encourage you to start a thread if you want posters to help round out your list, discuss an ED2 app, etc. etc.

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Just want to give a chin-up to the piles not accepted—mine was deferred (then later WL) from Harvard last year… she didnt have a favorite “dream school” so was not too upset, but still it is hard! By the time she had all her RD answers in…she was accepted to a different Ivy as well as 3 other T10 universities. We know 3 other kids, some deferred, some rejected early, from these restricted-EA type schools over the years who got into more than one similar- tier schools in RD. It works out in the end! Hang in there.
Edit: as to ED2…none of her top-5 faves had ED2, so it wasn’t considered and she is glad stuck with her plan of No ED unless it is a clear #1.

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Accepted!! I’m still in shock.

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Congratulations! :tada: :tada: :tada:

Would you like to share your stat?

Son was REJECTED. He wasn’t too bummed, knew it was a long shot.

Stats: 4.0 GPA at competitive prep school (all honors), ACT 34. Tri-varsity athlete, leader of multiple clubs, founded one club. Multiple medical internships. One publication, another in press. Essays were quite good (scrutinized by a couple of ex-AOs in the neighborhood as well as his admissions counselor), I thought they were better than most in the books.

I suspect he was rejected for one or two reasons:

  1. Last year, Yale accepted seven kids from his school, but only two accepted. That’s a yield hit and I suspect this year they are much more picky.

  2. ACT of 34. Even though this is the median ACT at Yale, that median includes athletes, legacies, folks that donated $25mil, etc. If you are pursuing a merit-based application the score threshold might be much higher. My son may have made a strategic mistake – spent the summer as a researcher to get another publication rather than put in the hours to boost his test scores. Part of his decision was that he wasn’t sure he would even submit scores, last year most students didn’t (unless they were perfect) but this year the counselors changed their advice. By then it was too late.

So far two kids in his school got accepted, both double legacies.

Thanks for reflecting. But I think ACT should not be the reason. School ranking should be way more important than standard test scores.

Are the 2 legacies kids have stronger case than your son?

@2Devils you’re spot on.
Those deferred or rejected, just hang in there. Your RD results will be much much better. You will find your school!

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didn’t respond but accepted!! my chance me from spring is on my profile :blue_heart::white_heart: so grateful because CC literally saw me as a confused 8th grader applying to boarding school to now.

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His prep school doesn’t rank. Legacy still provides an enormous advantage at Yale, more than 10% of any class are legacies. I don’t know much about the kids that got in, except that one of them wrote a simple phone app.

Yale has so many applications that they have to be screening them somehow, and test scores is the fastest way. I wonder if my son’s application was even read.

MIT is kind of the nicest school in this respect. They don’t favor legacies and don’t make exceptions for athletes. They actually tell you what your test score needs to be for them to read your application.

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