<p>There are no published stats on EA-- it’s all anecdotes.
With ED we know that at CMU and all schools, the rates are higher…about 40-50% higher. That’s on internal reports.</p>
<p>I think CMU doesn’t mean to mislead students-- it’s really a self serving statement on their part-- they lock in top students through ED but not so with EA. EA students are treated as RD and have until May 1 to decide. We were surprised that as an EA admit, S didn’t receive his financial / merit package in December with the ED pool and had to wait until late March. That was surprising and frustrating-- b/c reality, had to apply to some other competitors to be ready to bargain. Turns out it worked out fine anyway.</p>
<p>The anecdotal data gathered from FB and CC shows an exceptionally high acceptance rate for EA. But keep in mind it’s a tiny sample 50-70 perhaps all who already demonstrated twice to admissions their abilities-- once to gain acceptance to pre-college (a pre-screen perhaps) and the icing on the cake-- the As in the CMU courses. The references roll over from those applications.
About 300-400 students attend Pre-college. Clearly not everyone gets As in all classes. So applying with Bs is perceived risky perhaps.</p>
<p>As I posted somewhere once before, all but 1 student who applied EA in the 2014 group was accepted EA. More students did apply ED than EA. The one rejected student got Cs in his classes (he enjoyed his freedom way too much that summer)-- applied SCS rejected-- turned around and applied HSS with the intent to transfer – was accepted. Got no money so he headed to another competitive institution.</p>
<p>Don’t loose any sleep over it…if the dates passed, you just have to wait it out now. ECE has tough stats…one approach might also play a safety school – also apply MCS ?? perhaps for physics or math IF your S can demonstrate in the essay or ECs that the interest in ECE has a complimentary interest related to Physics? That gets him into CMU in a round about way if CIT-ECE doesn’t work out.</p>
<p>Good luck! Let us know how it turns out!</p>