<p>Are my chances automatically lowered for RD if some kids at my school have been accepted to a school ED?</p>
<p>Absolutely not, colleges have a certain acceptance rate in their ED pool, and then start afresh in their RD pool. They are two different pools, unrelated, the only difference is that ED binds you and therefore ups your chances (statistically) by a few percentage points.</p>
<p>haha..you know, usually a school accept 1/3 of its applicants from ED's...if you really want to go to a certain school, do ED.</p>
<p>amwiteet- if you want to go to a good school, it also helps to have ECs lol.
but anyways most colleges claim not to have quotas on kids from the same school. and usually its tougher to get in RD cuz the most qualified people get in early, and so dont hafta bother with RD.</p>
<p>hahah...however qualified those people are(no matter how many EC's they have), they can only have one ED, HA! let's say 100 super good students apply for 5 top colleges, each college will have 20 students competing with each other in ED, but all 100 students will apply for all 5 colleges, so there will be 80 students competing with each other in RD. 4 to 1 advantage there! There will be totally 400 applicationss in RD, toally 100 applicantions in ED. Agree?</p>
<p>if each school accepts 30% applicants, in the case above, 10(out of 20) will from ED, 20(out of 80) will from RD.</p>
<p>keep in mind pton, MIT, cornell, penn, dartmouth, and brown early applicants cant apply RD if they get in. therefore the RD pool must be less qualified.</p>