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Anonymous wrote:OMG, there is another admissions category?
Parent of a junior just getting the lay of the land. So there is ED1, ED2, EA, RD and now SCEA? Am I missing anything else?
There is also REA slightly different from the SCEA.
What is the difference? There was no difference between REA and SCEA, not at least for Yale, Harvard and Stanford (schools my kid applied to). Harvard and Stanford refer to it as REA and Yale uses both terms interchangeably.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. If anything SCEA miht be a subset of REA, but the terms are used pretty much interchangably.
Has no one applied to Harvard early? We seem to have 1 for Y, P and S, maybe two for Y. Where are all the early apps? Did people really bale on early Ivies? So weird.
This is all very anecdotal, so who knows — but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if SCEA applications to the Ivy’s are down vs. last year. So few kids were successful last year, and SCEA is so limiting, that I could see kids taking their ED shot at a school where they have a better shot at success, and spreading a bunch of EA’s around. RD is so disadvantaged now, that fewer will want to put all their eggs in an Ivy basket and face the possibility that they’ll be scrambling during the RD round (even if they can also apply to public universities). If they don’t get in to their ED, or just did EAs, they can throw an app in to the Ivy RD, if they still want to play the lottery.
Exactly what I'm hearing from a lot of kids. Ivy is such a crap shoot lottery it isn't worth wasting a binding early app when you have a more reasonable shot ED into other great schools and can EA to many to make sure you have some good options in the end. If you don't get into the ED, then spread the apps wide and far everywhere. Strong student still do get into Ivy RD, so it begins to feel like same difference at that point. Personally, I think they need to do away with this system and just limit the number of schools any one student can apply to.
I'm pp and this is what my DC is doing. He'll send in a total of 8 or so EAs (Nov. 15 deadline for some) to schools with a wide range of selectivity, and he may yet do EDII to a "Top 20" school. After the dust settles on that, he may throw in some Ivy applications, just to see what happens (he's got the stats and is geographically desirable from an Ivy standpoint). But he was not interested at all in limiting himself to applying to one Ivy as far as private schools go.
I'm sure the Ivys will get applications from more qualified students than they can admit, as always, but it will be interesting to see if they've overplayed their hand a bit and begin to lose their usual "first dibs" on the very best students (especially of the "non-hooked" variety).
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