The school has north of 30 varsity sports, and the number of recruits depends on the varsity level team. For instance, swimming would likely have 8/9 recruits per year, while golf would have much less, I’d imagine, because of the size of the team.
I’ve read that while the school acknowledges that it is slightly easier to get in during early decision, the 25% rate is highly inflated and that they believe all students accepted during the early decision process aside from recruits would get in during regular decision
@mary25 last year 10% of the class is recruited athletes.
@airbubble415 what’s your source for that? Just want to look at some of the %s from last years ED cycle.
And, that athlete number is a part of the ED total so ED chances are better than regular decision but much less than 25 percent.
So, completely based on last year’s numbers: if 10% of the admits are recruited athletes, that’s ~218 people. If we eliminate those people both from the ED applicant and accepted pools, we get (494-218)/(1927-218), which gives us an admissions rate of 16.1%. Definitely lower than the overall ED rate, but when you recalculate the Regular Decision acceptance rate to only consider RD admits, it gets to be a bigger advantage than we initially assumed. 1682 accepted RD applicants out of the 18,748 student RD applicant pool gives us an RD admissions rate of just 8.9% a figure which doesn’t even account for ED deferred students. Without proper numbers, it’s impossible to decipher an exact regular admissions rate, but basic arithmetic would suggest an even smaller figure. This means that the ED admissions rate for non-recruited athletes is actually nearly twice as high as for RD candidates.
Just my analysis of the numbers, @mary25 @bgmuleri @airbubble415
@dartagnaneb You’re right. I’m just wondering why Dartmouth would have asked some of the counselors to send the first trimester grade around thanksgiving…
For those who believe applying ED is NOT an advantage: If you’re going to consider all the legacies and recruited athletes that apply ED, might as well account for all those students who were accepted/deferred from HYP SCEA into the RD pool… and those “over achievers” who will apply to all 8 ivy league schools.
Just my two cents 
Just so I can get a feeling for the numbers, how many people on here were asked for their first quarter grades?
@nickrash Me!
@kairos123 I can imagine a variety of scenarios. Are you taking a significantly heavier courseload this year than you have in the past? If so, it might give them a better sense of how you might perform at the College.
Same! My counselor was asked to provide my quarter grades on the 23rd. Do you guys think they would bother asking for them if they were leaning towards denial?
I sent mine in without them asking me for it initially.
@sc5599 My counselor said they wouldn’t have asked for the grades if they were leaning towards denial, so I guess it’s good news…? But it might also mean that we were on the borderline so they had to see? Lots of possibilities.
@kairos123 Were your freshman to junior year grades really consistent? Or did they fluctuate? Uh I just really want to know my decision.
Hey guys, been lurking here for a while but figured I’d start posting considering decisions are about 9 days away.
I sent my first quarter grades without them asking, but I don’t think the others from my school applying early did the same.
The college emailed my counselor and asked for my first quarter grades about two weeks ago.
@sc5599 My grades were pretty consistent… How bout yours?
@kairos123 My guess is that they asked all of the kids who’s school reports on a quarter system. My school is on semester so there is nothing official to send in.