EA Ivy vs ED other top 20 colleges

There’s always going to be some interpretation because Harvard doesn’t say anything about the data. What we know is that in the latest year of the data in lawsuit, if you have an overall rating of 3 in RD, you acceptance rate is 2%, in SCEA it’s 15%, if you have a 3+ its 9% in RD, 30% in SCEA, I’ve rounded the numbers. That’s significant, because for someone who gets a 3+ (not even the top of their class which gets 1’ and 2s), you’ll take a 30% acceptance rate all day from Harvard if you’re unhooked. However, and this is the caveat, you don’t know if that 30% is because of better applicants, hooks (legacy, urm, athlete, development) or showing interest in Harvard, which others have also mentioned.