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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

There is also REA slightly different from the SCEA.[/quote]

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.[/quote]
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.
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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. [/quote]

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