Tufts aims to fill roughly half of their 1,325 class size from 2,070 ED applications, which gives an estimated ED acceptance rate of 32%.
http://now.tufts.edu/articles/tufts-undergrad-applications-set-new-record
goldenbear2020, that’s amazing: nearly half their 2020 class? I think Northwestern did the same. That’s seems rather unfair to many students from lower income families that often don’t even know about applying early admission to the top schools.
Regardless, I just read the article you provided the link to. I found this statement interesting:
The review of the second round of early decision applications is underway; acceptance decisions for it will be
released in early February. Admissions officials expect roughly half of the Class of ’20 to enroll via the two early
decision rounds.
Second round of early decision applications? I wasn’t even aware that college admissions committees conducted second early decision rounds. Is this unique to Tufts or do other schools do this?
Some schools have both ED1 and ED2. The deadline is usually around Jan. 1. Here’s a list of schools with an ED2 option. Many of Tufts’ NESCAC peers are on this list.
http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/blog/early-decision-ii/
Sue22, thanks for this. I think the reason my counselor never told me about ED2 is because none of the schools I applied to are on the list. Appreciate it.
Adding Boston College:
http://bcheights.com/news/2016/despite-rise-admission-rate-2016-early-action-acceptances-maintained-rigorous-test-scores/
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%)
Georgia Tech EA 4424 out of 14861 (29.8%)
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%)
Boston College EA 2700 out of 8600 (31.4%)
Tufts ED ~663 out of 2070 (~32%) (estimated)
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%+)
Not that it matters, but the BC article says that the EA acceptance rate was 32% and the numbers are estimates rather than exact. Also, BC’s program is REA. It’s interesting that they state that they expect 25% of the deferred applicants to eventually gain acceptance; that 's pretty high and gives the deferred some hope.
I found this blog post helpful - Class of 2020 Early Admission Results - https://www.college-kickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2020-early-admission-results
goldenbear2020 - thanks for sharing these stats - there are more here - https://www.college-kickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2020-early-admission-results
Thanks, adding UVA:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/01/university-releases-early-action-offers
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%)
Georgia Tech EA 4424 out of 14861 (29.8%)
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%)
University of Virginia EA 5203 out of 16768 (31.0%)
Boston College REA ~2700 out of 8600 (~31.4%)
Tufts ED ~663 out of 2070 (~32%) (estimated)
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%+)
Posting one offer rate for UVA is misleading since residency is a major factor in our review. [I</a> posted the numbers broken down by residency on my blog this morning](Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Unofficial Early Action #UVA20 Statistics).
Separating UVA into In-State and OOS:
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%)
UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%) (3005 def=24.4%) (6348 rej=51.6%)
Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
Georgia Tech EA 4424 out of 14861 (29.8%)
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%)
Boston College REA ~2700 out of 8600 (~31.4%)
Tufts ED ~663 out of 2070 (~32%) (estimated)
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%)
UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%) (1060 def=23.8%) (1163 rej=26.1%)
University of Georgia ED 7500+ out of 14516 (51%+)
Middlebury College ED 338 out of 636 (53.1%) (74 def=11.6%) (224 rej=35.2%)
@dataseeker posted a third party list of EA/ED statistics, and one of the new ones was Dickinson. I read the article in the Dickinson newspaper that purports to support the % accepted, and it actually doesn’t say how many applicants they had. The article only stated the number of acceptances. If anyone can confirm the source of the information about how many ED applicants Dickinson had this year, we could add it to the list.
@spayurpets Just to clarify: Boston College is not REA, but just EA, unless you’re using the R to mean “regular” rather than “restricted”.
http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/freshman/deadlines.html
I think that may be in part because for some kids BC is a “hedge one’s bets” kind of school-- easier to get into than Georgetown for those looking for Jesuit education; easier to get into than the Ivies for those looking at selective schools. (Not to diminish BC’s charms by any means; my own son was just accepted there!)
@petrichor11, thanks for the info about BC EA. I was thrown off because the campus paper article (link at post #89) referred to the BC program as restrictive EA and they state that BC doesn’t want you to apply ED to any school while you are applying to BC EA.
Unusual for Cornell, but they released a lot of their ED information this year. Especially interesting is the info on the amount of legacy and athletes in the ED acceptances; gives you are real good picture of what the acceptance rate is for unhooked ED applicants. More than 1 in 3 ED acceptances went to athletes and legacies.
Adding Cornell to the list:
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%)
UVA EA (OOS) 2955 out of 12308 (24.0%) (3005 def=24.4%) (6348 rej=51.6%)
Dartmouth ED 494 out of 1927 (25.6%)
Cornell ED 1338 out of 4882 (27.4%) (1153 def=23.6%) (2391 rej=49.0%)
Georgia Tech EA 4424 out of 14861 (29.8%)
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%)
Boston College REA ~2700 out of 8600 (~31.4%)
Tufts ED ~663 out of 2070 (~32%) (estimated)
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%)
UVA EA (In-State) 2237 out of 4460 (50.2%) (1060 def=23.8%) (1163 rej=26.1%)
University of Georgia ED 7500+ out of 14516 (51%+)
Middlebury College ED 338 out of 636 (53.1%) (74 def=11.6%) (224 rej=35.2%)
With Cornell putting out their ED data this year (and very detailed too!), Columbia is the only Ivy League school to not release their data. I wonder if this will put some pressure on the school to do so either this year or in future years.
Keep in mind ND is probably deflated due to legacy students and athletes.
Notre Dame’s acceptance rate is what it is, I don’t see what is different about them. There are several other schools on the list that have Division I sports programs, and even the Ivy League schools are recruiting many athletes on a smaller class size than ND.
Drilling down on some of the Cornell information, the number of legacies in the ED class is 305 students, and the recruited athletes is 193, if I did my math right.