Yale University’s Class of 2029 Early Decision Statistics
Yale published in the Yale Daily News that it admitted 10.8% from an application pool of 6,729 early applicants to their Single-Choice Early Action program (also known as Restrictive Early Action). 728 high-achieving students secured their place in this prestigious college. Last year, Yale admitted 9.02 percent of early applicants. That was the lowest early admit rate in more than two decades.
Deferred Students
Yale deferred 17% of the applicants to the class of 2029. These students will receive their decisions on March 26th or 27th (Ivy Day), alongside the students who are applying for admission on the regular decision timeline. Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid, was mightily impressed with the breadth and depth of the activities and academic rigor that the applicants demonstrated and hopes to extend admission to many dynamic students in the next round of admissions.
Standardized Testing Policy and QuestBridge
Starting this year, Yale has gone back to requiring students to submit their standardized test score. A policy adopted during the Covid-19 time, ultimately done away with in the current application year (2024-25). This means that students have to submit their ACT/SAT scores as a part of the application requirement. This could perhaps be a reason why there has been a slight drop in the number of applications. The admissions team had anticipated this new trend.
Yale College also admitted 66 students to the class of 2029 through the QuestBridge College Match, a program that connects high-achieving high school students from lower-income backgrounds with selective universities nationwide. These students receive financial aid to cover their full cost of tuition, housing, and meals.
The class of 2029 also saw a slight decrease in Asian American students, while their Black and Latin enrollment remained stable. A recent trend that we have witnessed is Yale rejecting more applicants than deferring them. In trend reversal, Yale now rejects more early applicants than it defers – Yale Daily News. “First, the increase in applications,” Quinlan previously told the News. “Deferring an application means the committee has to reconsider the application going forward … [So] we are pushing ourselves to make more final decisions in the early application round. The second thing was that we heard from our colleagues in high schools across the country that it is useful to offer final decisions earlier.”
In the coming months the committee will be flooded with thousands of applications that they have to review. A few lucky students will be informed of the decision in March 2025.
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