<p>I looked at the early decision rate for Johns Hopkins
at CollegeBoard website, and it had like 51%.
It is pretty high for one of the prestigious schools like JHU.
But to what i remember RD rate was quite low, maybe
as low as ivy schools, and further more i heard 11% dropped
in two years.
Does this mean JHU really favors those who apply for ED?</p>
<p>ed for hopkins was 45% i think and that's pretty much the same as all the other schools...nu's was about 44% and cornell's was around there also...almost all the schools have higher ed acceptance rates
also the 11% drop in 2 yrs is misleading...35% rd admit rate was for the yr 2005 which was abnormally a bit high due to anticipated low yield rate due to an incident and the school overenrolled due to their wrong anticipation...so there really wasn;t a 11% drop...b/c 2005's was an abnormality...also 2007's is also an abnormality b/c the school wants to underenroll this time due to overenrolling for 2 yrs straight
if you look through the past posts, you're find admission daniel's rsp to your last question have fun!
<a href="http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2007/04/whats_on_tap.html%5B/url%5D">http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2007/04/whats_on_tap.html</a></p>
<p>I'm not sure whether the University says this or not, but my understanding has also always been that recruited students of all types have been told to apply ED, as well as many other very highly qualified students who just want to know earlier. Early admissions in general, not just at Hopkins, is part of the game of competing so understand it from their point of view. Yield makes a difference on things like rankings, which in turn upregulate applicant #s etc.</p>
<p>I'm too busy to write a full response to why the ED and RD admit rates vary, because I have done so before...</p>
<p>Also, just a recommendation. PLEASE do not make assumptions about admit rates and changes in admit rates year-to-year when you just do not have all the information. I really get frustrated when uninformed people make judgments about admit rate changes when they do not have access to all the information. And that is all I will say about that.</p>
<p>Yield does not influence rankings anymore. </p>
<p>As far as selectivity goes, Hopkins I feel is equally as selective as Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell but selectivity depends on the quality and volume of the pool of course.</p>
<p>yield affects acceptance percentage therefore affects rankings...not like it really matters...all the schools care to some degree their yield rate =D...lol</p>