Early Action

Yale's early action applications increased by 52.4 percent, from 2,611 to a record 3,980, and accepted 670 early action applicants.

The increase in the number of early applicants that Yale received resulted in a more competitive process, with the early admission rate dropping from 21.3 percent for 2007 to 16.6 percent for 2008. This admission rate, however, is still better than the overall admission rate of 11.4 percent for the class of 2007.

Yale saw an increase in the number of minority applicants early.

Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities all switched to single-choice Early Action this year.

Regular Decision

Yale College received a record high number of applicants to the class of 2008, and admitted a record low percentage of those applicants.

The college admitted 1,950 students, or 9.9% of the 19,674 applicants. Last year, Yale admitted 2,014 students, or 11.3% of the 17,735 applicants.

The admitted students include 1,000 men and 950 women. The students' median SAT scores in both verbal and math are 750. Nearly 55% of the accepted students attended public schools and 42% are minority students. Applicants were admitted from all 50 states and 60 foreign nations.