<p>I've been trying to find the early action acceptance rate for 2010 or 2011, but I can't find it.
Anyone know what it is?</p>
<p>Prolly like 30%</p>
<p>I think it was estimated to be just under 20%. Could be wrong, though (can’t remember where I read this.)</p>
<p>I thought there RD rate was 27%, it seems logical to think EA would atleast be a little higher.</p>
<p>That was two years ago. The acceptance rate last year was around 15%, I believe (RD+EA), due to the gigantic jump in admissions. I think the RD rate this year is going to be around 11% or so. But again, these are stats that I vaguely remember reading, I do not know the specific source.</p>
<p>21%ish EA this year</p>
<p>Hmm, would it make a difference if an unhooked applicant applied early?
I’ve been reading that usually athletes and legacies apply EA, therefore leading to a higher acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Apply early action. It will not hurt you. Athletics and legacy are not considered in the same manner as the Ivies at Uchicago. The worst that could happen is that you get deferred to RD. The best that could happen is that you get accepted 3 months before most decisions are released.</p>
<p>Is there any admissions data (Average SAT, G.P.A, finicial aid, etc) for this years or last years Early Action?</p>
<p>The EA admission rate this year was about 23%. Roughly speaking, 1,600 acceptances (300 more than in most previous years) from a pool of 7,000 EA applications. The RD rate will be about 15-16% if you use RD applications as the denominator, but really more like 11-12% if you include deferred EA applications, too.</p>
<p>So, still roughly speaking, the EA acceptance rate will be twice the RD acceptance rate this year. Which is unprecedented in recent admissions seasons for the University of Chicago – there hasn’t been anything like that relationship in the past, although the EA rate was often 10 percentage points higher.</p>
<p>I wonder if getting deferred confers any kind of advantage on a student. Interest, maybe?</p>
<p>I googled your question and found this: Chicago’s EA admission rate this year was 20.11% according to Michele Hernandez’s (she’s the author of college application books and a former dartmouth admissions counselor) website page. She has listed the EA/ED stats at all selective schools for this year. Notice, however, that for her graph of the selective schools other than the ivies, she has a typo for the year heading – she listed this years’ stats under college class of 2014 when she meant 2015. Google: michele hernandez.</p>
<p>It’s interesting. I was (mistakenly) using last year’s number in calculating this year’s admission rate. But I can’t find a reliable report of the number of people accepted EA this season anywhere. Hernandez is the only source that provides any number at all, and hers is so round it practically screams “estimate”. I don’t know why Chicago is so fussy and non-transparent about this sort of information, but it is. Aided, no doubt, by the fact that they do the EA acceptances while the student newspaper is on hiatus for exams and vacation, so no one onsite is asking.</p>
<p>The difference matters because last year Chicago accepted 300+ more students EA than it had in any prior year, which presumably made a meaningful difference in the number of RD slots available. Every marginal EA acceptance probably reduces the number of RD acceptances by ~1.5. Hernandez’s estimate has them regressing most (but not all) of the way back to the mean, which would serve to reduce the acceptance rate disparity between EA and RD.</p>
<p>Ouch…I’m just happy I got in when I did. Who knows if I would be able to get in now O.O</p>
<p>[Early-Decision</a> Applications Surge at Vanderbilt, George Washington and Dartmouth - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/ed/]Early-Decision”>Early-Decision Applications Surge at Vanderbilt, George Washington and Dartmouth - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Edit: nevermind… read the table wrong, but 18.5% increase so calculate accordingly?</p>
<p>Early Admit Rates for the Class of 2016
1.) MIT (EA) 11.3%
2.) Stanford (REA) 12.8%
3.) Georgetown (EA) 14.7%
4.) Yale (SCEA) 15.7%
5.) University of Chicago (EA) 17.6%
6.) Harvard (SCEA) 18.2%
7.) Brown (ED) 19.0%
8.) Columbia (ED) 20.4%
9.) Princeton (SCEA) 21.0%
10.) Duke (ED) 24.5%
11.) Rice (ED) 24.9%
12.) Penn (ED) 25.4%
13.) Dartmouth (ED) 25.8%
14.) Vanderbilt (ED) 31.3%
15.) Cornell (ED) 32.5%
16.) Northwestern (ED) 32.8%
[Early</a> Line on Early Admissions - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/2012-early-admission/]Early”>Early Line on Early Admissions - The New York Times)</p>