<p>If one gets rejected ED despite the increased % of admittance, should one withdraw some of his/her RD 'reach' applications?</p>
<p>Don’t withdraw, you should always try.</p>
<p>Do not withdraw! You are still the same applicant you were when you sent in the apps to those “reach” schools–your ED decision does not change who you are. The increased acceptance rate for ED can be meaningless…plenty of people don’t get into their ED school but are accepted RD at comparable schools or better. Applicant pools are just so huge that even ED is really a crap shoot. I’d recommend reading the OP’s story in this thread from the Yale board:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/125370-yale-people-listen-up.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/125370-yale-people-listen-up.html</a></p>
<p>There is always hope. And even if you do think it’s hopeless, why withdraw? You never know. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Your chances of getting into other top schools as a ED admit versus as an ED reject/deferral are, ceteris paribus, better. College admissions aren’t totally independent events.</p>
<p>However, there’s no reason to withdraw applications.</p>
<p>I think you have a 0% chance of getting in if you don’t apply.</p>
<p>To tell you the truth </p>
<p>IF you were REJECTED flat out then yes they’re something blatantly not up to par with your stats or Columbia missed something extremely notable about you that would warrant an admit.</p>
<p>IF you were deferred it means you have a solid chance at other schools (well no less so than the RD pool)</p>
<p>withdraw? not like you get a refund. I see this as a deal with only upside (acceptance) and no loss (again you already paid the application fee.. getting rejected and withdrawing comes out to the same outcome)</p>
<p>Chances don’t matter in college admissions. What matters is whether you get in or not. It’s a binary situation. And each application you submit has different essays, different interview reports, different aspects emphasized, etc. And if not then nonetheless the admissions committee of each school will approach each application differently. Basically, one school’s decision has no influence over other schools’ decisions, so just do your best on each individual application, and embrace this opportunity to improve your applications if you haven’t submitted them yet. And if you have, then you can send updates later on.</p>
<p>What truazn8948532 says makes sense, until you realize how human the admissions process is, and how different each school is. I remember Columbia’s application was different from most others because they ask for things like your favorite books and why you want to go there (with a very limited word count). Penn, on the other hand, doesn’t ask about books and asks you to write a page-long essay about why you want to go there. Harvard doesn’t have either of these things, but they ask you what your career goal is. Schools put a lot of effort into crafting their applications; these idiosyncrasies are on certain applications for some purpose, and absent from others because those schools are looking for something else.</p>
<p>FWIW my friend got rejected from Columbia early last year and now she’s very happy at Brown. I also have friends who got rejected from Stanford early and are now at MIT and Duke. Early rejections are not the end of the world.</p>
<p>However, as optimistic as I may sound, Columbia2002 is also right in that there are certainly trends in admissions decisions. But that doesn’t mean you should assume you won’t get in anywhere else, and certainly don’t withdraw your applications if you’ve already submitted them. Just make sure you’re applying to a wide range of schools that you will be happy at. Good luck.</p>
<p>But if you got rejected because you had a 3.0 GPA and a iono… 1800 SAT, I can pretty darn well say you’re not getting into any Ivy League schools (any significant outside influences/EC’s/developmental admits aside)</p>
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<p>Other schools may see you were rejected by one school and take a closer look at you before accepting you. They may or may not feel that since Columbia rejected you, there may be a substantial flaw or other lacking attribute that caused CU to reject you. Columbia2002 is right to a certain extent, but different schools weight specific things more/less so you never know. There’s no reason to withdraw applications cause it’s a crapshoot either way.</p>
<p>wait, maybe i’m dumb here, but why would other schools know that you’ve been rejected ED?</p>
<p>They won’t know that you’ve been rejected ED. Colleges don’t publish these things. They also don’t make them available through some sort of back door.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t assume they can’t see it. You never know what goes behind closed doors.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t see how an admissions decision at Columbia is enough for one to make judgments about how one will fare at other schools.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you’re extremely unqualified to attend any of these schools.
Then, yes.</p>
<p>Never give up! My son was deferred by Columbia ED (ultimately rejected), but accepted RD to Princeton, Brown, Georgetown, and other top schools. Good luck.</p>