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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are unhooked and a very strong applicant and want to go to an Ivy, game theory would suggest that the value of ED to Brown, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth and Cornell is far greater than the value of SCEA to Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Empirical evidence shows all these schools use the early round for hooked categories disproportionately.    For unhooked high stats/very strong applicants who get deferred in ED this translates into a higher propensity to accept the offer of admission in the RD round from the perspective of the university and therefore the conversion ratio from ED deferral to RD accept vs SCEA deferral to RD accept is much greater because it has a significant impact on yield from the school’s perspective.  SCEA is really for those with multiple hooks, especially VIP, legacy, athlete, URM and 1st gen.  Last year Yale, in SCEA, after many years history of  deferring the majority of applicants to RD from SCEA, flipped to outright rejecting the majority of applicants in SCEA.  SCEA is just a waste if you are unhooked.  Even if you get deferred, you are unlikely to eventually get in during RD.  [/quote]

What is the sc in scea? Isn’t the term restrictive early action? [/quote]

Single choice. Not sure why OP thinks this is a new thing. I applied under SCEA/REA in the early 1980s.[/quote]

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