Yale will decrease number of early admits

[Hunt]

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The increase in EA applications is not surprising. What was surprising was that their yield was 80% from EA. This means that a high % of accepted students are probably recruited athletes, legacies, or there is sufficient randomness in HYPS admissions that Harvard and Princeton select different students than Yale does.

Or it may be that getting admitted early, even EA, is a powerful incentive to choose that school at the end of the process. That could be one of the reasons Yale chose to keep it; it may help them enroll cross admits with H and P.</p>