<p>What are your chances ED vs. RD? Are they dramatically different (to Columbia College, not SEAS)? Thanks.</p>
<p>Also - in the interview what questions do they ask?</p>
<p>in the interview they ask about yourself
why do you want to go columbia
why do choose your <em>major</em>
stuff like that, advice
smile, wear nice clothes, have knowledge about the school and the specific school in the college you are applying to and be yourself</p>
<p>From the statistics I looked at, ED had nearly twice the acceptance rate of RD. S</p>
<p>ED tends to have a slightly more qualified applicant pool but in the college, the ED acceptance rate is 2.5-3 times higher than RD. There’s no way that such a large differential exists in quality of applicants. So there is some advantage in applying ED instead of RD to columbia.</p>
<p>Conventional wisdom says that to get the best chance you apply ED. If you can afford to, go ED. Columbia has great finaid packages, so you won’t need to compare all that much. </p>
<p>I mean, they say that an applicant that is accepted ED will be accepted RD, but if Columbia’s your top choice, by all means apply ED.</p>
<p>Agreed. I hear around that there is no advantage in ED vs RD especially in ivy leagues – but there has to be at least some. If you have the stats and qualification to succeed at Columbia, it gives them a lot of assurance to accept you because they know you love their school (will add school spirit/collaboration) and will also have a higher overall yield.</p>
<p>Often ignored is the fact that approximately 40% of the admitted students at a school like Columbia are legacies, development admits, recruited athletes and URMs. The admissions “edge” for legacies, development applicants and athletes is focused on the ED round; in essence, the hook is a “use it or lose it” tool available if and only if one elects to use it by applying ED (with exceptions, of course). If, say, even 20% of the admitted students in each class are legacy, development or athletic “hook” admits in the ED round, the portion of the ED slots available to everyone else is reduced dramatically.</p>
<p>Remember too that many successful ED applicants apply to Columbia because it is truly their first choice. A good many of those folks could likely gain admission at Columbia’s top peers (including Harvard and Princeton) and, as Obstinate says, would also likely be admitted in the RD round.</p>
<p>Apply ED to Columbia (or any other ED school, for that matter) only if you are dead certain that it is your absolute first choice. If you apply ED to gain an admissions edge (which I do not believe exists), you may regret it. What if, God forbid, you are actually admitted and have to stand by and watch your friends in the spring gain admission to your true first choice?</p>
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<p>So that means an applicant accepted RD will be accepted ED.</p>
<p>And also means an applicant deffered ED will not be accepted RD!!!??</p>
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<p>no these are all non-sequiturs, I will disagree with the premise and say that some applicants accepted ED would not have made it RD, this means that the vast majority (like 90-95%) of deffered applicants will ultimately be rejected (either waitlist and reject or reject). Anecdotally deffered applicants who get in RD have shown some improvement between ED and RD, like SAT score rising by 150 points, some high level EC accomplishments etc. </p>
<p>Ultimately in my head applying ED does give you a slight advantage because the difference in acceptance rate is too large, and if you haven’t been accepted ED, it’s very unlikely that you will be RD (but still possible).</p>
<p>At least in my school, for SEAS, ED is a huge advantage.
Everyone above a 93.8 who applied ED got in for the last 3 years.
In regular, 95 seems to be the switch off point between waitlist and accept, but still about 1/3 of the applicants above a 95 are either rejected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>What school?</p>