Columbia is being coy by not telling the newspaper how many were accepted. Does anyone know from their acceptance letter how many were admitted?
Columbia ED ??? out of 3520 (??%)
Does anyone have info on Boston College?
Adding Davidson College
http://www.davidson.edu/news/news-stories/151218-early-decision-applicant-pool-breaks-record
MIT EA 656 out of 7,767 (8.4%) (4776 deferred=61.5%) (2175 rejected=28%)
Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%) (remainder deferred=87%)
Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%) (4673 def=75.7%) (464 rej=7.5%)
Yale SCEA: 795 out of 4662 (17.1%) (53% def) (29% rej)
Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%) (1905 def=62.9%) (456 rej=15.0%)
Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%) (1663 def=19.2%)
Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
Williams College ED 246 out of 585 (42.1%)
Davidson College ED 207 out of 458 (45.2%)
Middlebury College ED 338 out of 636 (53.1%) (74 def=11.6%)
University of Georgia ED 7500+ out of 14516 (51%+)
On an ED basis alone, Brown has the lowest reported admit rate at 22%. Anyone want to speculate whether there is any other lower admit rate for ED? Columbia maybe? Amherst? Cornell? Others?
@spayurpets: Rice is pretty stingy with ED admissions (20% for class of 2019). In fact, with an ED acceptance rate only 30% larger than the RD acceptance rate, Rice may also have, by far, the smallest ED “boost”.
With only a 27% RD yield and a 34% overall yield, Rice could definitely fill a much larger percentage of their class (currently just 28%) - all 3 of these numbers are probably among the lowest among the most selective schools.
https://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Freshman_Profile.asp
@spayurpets Last year Pomona’s ED admission rate was 19%. Harvey Mudd’s was 17% (or maybe lower, not sure because the graphic that was part of the article is no longer available). http://tsl.news/articles/2015/2/21/news/6011-5cs-release-early-decision-results. According to @nostalgicwisdom, Pomona’s ED applications are up 30%, leading to speculation that if the same # are admitted ED as in the past, the acceptance rate will be significantly lower than last year’s 19%, maybe less than 14% including Questbridge and Posse. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19052882/#Comment_19052882. I’m not clear on how the ED2 round will affect this, but it appears to me that the Pomona ED admit rate will be lower than last year’s 19%.
I also found this chart for last year’s applications (not sure how reliable it is): https://www.iecaonline.com/PDF/IECA_Library_ED-vs-RD-Acceptances.pdf
Good call on Rice and Pomona. Vanderbilt is probably also somewhere in the low 20%ish range for ED, but they have ED1 and ED2 so I don’t know that that affects the overall.
I want to know what WUSTL’s was. Last year it was 42% for ED. Thus, I applied there this year ED and got rejected. I am going to be furious if it is just as high as it was last year 
WUSTL is one of those schools that chooses not to publicize their ED statistics. I’ve looked but can’t find anything. If some one else has access to those data, please post.
As a parent of a kid at a “high poverty, highly diverse, inner city” school, I can suggest that ED doesn’t happen because kids definitely don’t know about it. There’s no college counselor, no way even to get reduced/waived-fee SAT tests, seniors who only vaguely know of these. I only just learned - far too late - that evidently there is a “significant advantage” to applying before the application’s stated due date. Ooops.
@sirila: In addition to lack of awareness and timely preparation for ED deadlines, middle to lower income families also need to compare financial aid packages, so they tend to be much more hesitant to commit to a school with an unknown price tag, even if that school is need-blind and meets full financial need.
That’s why it disturbs me to see a school like Northwestern admit 50% of its class through ED.
@spayurpets Do you know the percent deferred from Penn? I was deferred and would like to know if I still have a decent shot!
Adding Notre Dame…
http://admissions.nd.edu/connect/news/63366-notre-dame-admits-1-610-early-action-applicants-to-the-class-of-2020/
MIT EA 656 out of 7,767 (8.4%) (4776 deferred=61.5%) (2175 rejected=28%)
Stanford REA 745 out of 7822 (9.5%)
Georgetown EA 892 out of 7027 (12.7%) (remainder deferred=87%)
Harvard SCEA 918 out of 6173 (14.9%) (4673 def=75.7%) (464 rej=7.5%)
Yale SCEA: 795 out of 4662 (17.1%) (53% def) (29% rej)
Princeton SCEA 785 out of 4229 (18.6%)
Brown ED 669 out of 3030 (22.1%) (1905 def=62.9%) (456 rej=15.0%)
Penn ED 1335 out of 5762 (23.2%)
Duke ED 813 out of 3455 (23.5%) (1663 def=19.2%)
Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
Notre Dame EA 1610 out of 5321 (30.3%) (818 def=15.4%) (2893 rej=54.4%)
Johns Hopkins ED 584 out of 1929 (30.3%)
Northwestern ED 1061 out of 3022 (35.1%)
Williams College ED 246 out of 585 (42.1%)
Davidson College ED 207 out of 458 (45.2%)
Middlebury College ED 338 out of 636 (53.1%) (74 def=11.6%) (224 rej=35.2%)
University of Georgia ED 7500+ out of 14516 (51%+)
Ref: ND
REA rate is just over 30%. Overall acceptance rate (REA + RD) in recent years is 21%. Yield from REA per article is 67%.
Is it safe to say that much (obviously not all)
of the bump in REA vs RD acceptance rate and high REA yield are recruited athletes?
@ChicagoSportsFn, I’m sure there are recruited athletes in that number, but many of the admits in the REA round are high stats kids who have chosen to forego an ED application elsewhere which tells me they usually intend to go to ND if admitted (assuming the FA works out). I admit I’m basing that on anecdotal evidence - my D is a freshman there and that was the case with many of the kids she knows there, many of whom were admitted to higher ranked schools during the RD round.
Any info on Cornell?
Cornell and Columbia are the only Ivies that don’t usually issue a press release about their early admissions; they might do it later in the year, but I’m not sure. Cornell’s student profile for the class of 2019 reports that last year they had 4560 applications for ED and 1196 admits, for a 26% acceptance rate. No other details.
Any information on Caltech? Thanks.
@spayurpets “On an ED basis alone, Brown has the lowest reported admit rate at 22%. Anyone want to speculate whether there is any other lower admit rate for ED? Columbia maybe? Amherst? Cornell? Others?”
No way Cornell will be lower. Cornell has a relatively high ED acceptance rate, over 30%.
The “effective” ED rate for non-athletes at Amherst and Williams is impossible to figure out, but it’s low. It’s impossible to figure out because they will say there are 65-70 “slots” for athletes, which is true. These 65-70 athletes get in with slightly lower stats, and many/most are ED.
But what they don’t tell you is how many athletes get in on “tips” from coaches. These are recruited athletes that have stats that are at or above the admitted student averages (say, 3.85+ UW and 33+ ACT). There are a surprising number of those.
Although maybe not too surprising, if you just do the math and add up all of the athletes on all of the teams (100 football players alone, plus baseball, basketball, hockey, etc. etc. etc.). It’s a lot of players, and most are recruited athletes “tipped” to admissions by the coaches, most of which have already been “pre-read” and cleared by admissions. They take up a significant number of the ED spots.
Brown has the same issue with recruited athletes, but because it is bigger the athlete-student ratio isn’t the same, and the impact is not as large. But for sure, for a non-athlete the ED rate at Brown isn’t 22%.
Incidentially, Amherst reported that they admitted a record number of students ED this year.