advantage of EA harvard

Applying to College
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<p>I've been planning on applying to harvard EA for a while, before it was announced that the early applications would stop next year at harvard. I was basically choosing between whether to apply to MIT or Harvard EA, and liking them both about equally, I chose to apply to H because there was a significantly higher rate of acceptance for EA applicants, while at MIT there seemed to be almost no advantage. Is it probably that this higher EA acceptance rate will go down at H this year, since it has already denounced EA and got rid of it for next year?</p>

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<p>It's never been "significantly" higher. The EA admit rate for Harvard has always been around a mere 20%<< not high. Also note that the EA pool especially at a school like Harvard is composed of VERY STRONG candidates. Therefore, the competition never really abates.</p>

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<p>Well, 20% is about double the under 10% of RD. It's actually 21.2% to 6.5% for class of 2009 and 23.2% to 7.6% for 2008. That's about 3x the chance in RD. Statistics by Byerly:)</p>

<p>It's anybodies guess how SCEA will be treated this year, but Harvard is noted for taking the EA kids they want and rejecting the rest, whether they reject them EA or RD. They don't defer many and they take even fewer of the deferreds in the RD round.</p>

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<p>Harvard no longer does Early Action.</p>

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<p>"Harvard is noted for taking the EA kids they want and rejecting the rest, whether they reject them EA or RD. They don't defer many and they take even fewer of the deferreds in the RD round."</p>

<p>Are you kidding? Harvard only rejects 5% outright EA. They're notorious for deferring like crazy.</p>

<p>Also, if you look at the MIT admissions statistics (<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml&lt;/a&gt;), you'll see that although MIT only accepts 13% EA, if you're deferred you still have a slightly better chance of being accepted RD than someone who only applied RD. (12.5% for EA deferreds vs. 9.6% for RD applicants.)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I saw that. That MIT stat is AWESOME!</p>