Well, the alternative “Colunard” sounds a little too much like a luxury kitchen appliance brand?
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Basically equal (off by decimals).
But Williams had only 255 ED acceptances towards the 2026 class size of 577 (so ED was about 44% of the class), which would leave a slightly larger proportion for RD.
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Not sure if this was addressed by anyone else but at Harvard EA admission make up a smaller proportion of the class than you report above for Barnard. Example: in 2025 they admitted 747 EA out of 1968 total admissions and in 2026 740 EA out of 1954 total admissions so both years EA admits constituted ~38% of the admitted applicants.
Thanks - and since we were putting it in relation to enrolled students, that would translate to 46% (albeit it’s difficult to compare REA with ED, as we don’t know the yield from REA acceptances.)
Indeed - I more carefully checked the CNN article which had implied that 68% number. But after looking at the article they had referenced (The Harvard Crimson | Class of 2025 By the Numbers), they were trying to say that 68% of Harvard’s class had been admitted early action at SOME college (24.4% elsewhere, only 43.6% at Harvard itself).
So that lines up with your figures. Thanks for pointing this out!
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For people who might be interested, these are admission rates derived from Barnard’s most recent Common Data Set:
ED: 33.4%
RD: 8.4%
Overall: 11.4%
So that would be the class of 2025, the Spring ‘21 data.
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