<p>Besides the early notification. Do ED'ers get preferred housing choices and stuff like that?</p>
<p>Isn't the Acceptance rate a bit higher (something like 10 percentage points) ?</p>
<p>Once you gain admission via the ED route, you only get the obvious advantages named above. Class selections and housing selections are done at the same time as the RD students. The only other advantage is that your parents can make their hotel reservations early (for moving-in, First Year Family Weekend, and Graduation yes Graduation!</p>
<p>Some of the hotels will not take reservations this early, but many will. If you want to know your commencement date check the Academic Calendar <a href="http://web.cornell.edu/UniversityFaculty/5yrCalendar2006-2011.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://web.cornell.edu/UniversityFaculty/5yrCalendar2006-2011.pdf</a></p>
<p>I agree, the only adv for ED is higher acceptance rate. Aside from that, there are def more disadv... the financial package and lack of choice for example. </p>
<p>although there's def lots of emotional/psychological adv because the ppl who are accepted may be more relaxed than their peers. This arguement can also be seen from another POV (ppl who don't get in...)</p>
<p>Ya like woosa said, I bet it'll feel great getting the college admissions process of your chest.</p>
<p>And I know the Fin. Aid issue always comes up, but how exactly is that bad ?</p>
<p>Do ED students get less aid or is it that students don't have a chance to compare aid packages from other colleges.</p>
<p>i dont know about RD..but EDers have a grant so called Early Decision Grant...i am not sure how they call the grant for Rd..but that's sure for Ed</p>
<p>well Cornell's Ed rate is roughly 50 percent, not sure if it dropped this year due to an influx of applicants. But by doing ED you're really telling the University that you are willing to go there no matter what other college accepts you and its your number one choice. Not only does a person get more admission percentage, ur vying against a much less competitive applicant pool as the cream of the crop applicants do SCEA to Harvard Yale, ED to U Chicago etc etc. so the depth of the competition is also significantly less. But in a cynical view, Cornell is also just trying to get not only a firm Freshman class base, but also they just wanna snatch up the best applicants they can from neighboring Universities, so its also just a lure to those applicants who want to get into an Ivy and get college worries over with.</p>
<p>The admissions rate for ED this year was more like 36%, compared to the approximate 26% for RD. So 10% difference....</p>
<p>really it fell to 36, i remember seeing it as 50 percent at collegeboard</p>
<p>Here is the article about current ED rate of 36.6% from the Cornell Daily Sun:
<a href="http://www.cornellsun.com/node/20872%5B/url%5D">http://www.cornellsun.com/node/20872</a></p>
<p>It dropped around 2.1 points this year.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> At this rate, the ED rate will be 30% barely by the time I apply.</p>
<p>well no it dpeends. I read somewhere on CC how the number of applications to all the top top schools has dropped. It seemed alot of students have been discouraged from applying to the top schools since they hear so much about students w/ better stats getting rejected and are focusing more on the 20-30 ranked schools like UC's, Mich, Tufts, USC which are all getting higher app rates</p>
<p>Yes that is actually true, I was myself discouraged to apply to any other university besides Cornell.</p>
<p>I would say I'm one of those people too. I wanted to get into HYP, but after CC I revised my choices and focused more on What college had a decent program in the choice of my major rather than What college ranks the highest.</p>