<p>What percentage of EA applicants last year got accepted, deferred, and denied?</p>
<p>everything's on the admissions statistics thread!</p>
<p>18, 65, 16
Yale</a> University Admissions 2011</p>
<p>yay, so odds are we won't get rejected!</p>
<p>although most of us will get deferred :(</p>
<p>OK, now does anyone have stats on what % of the 65% deferred were later accepted?</p>
<p>well, since RD acceptance is only about 5.5%, and there are a lot more people who apply RD than those who were deferred from early action, i expect that percentage to be very low, unfortunately.. but there are those fortunate deferred ones who end up getting accepted, so who knows</p>
<p>are there any stats that tell the numbers? i have not come across any. Is it basically the 5.5% like the rest of the RD applicants or better/worse?</p>
<p>I found this to be a nice breakdown.</p>
<p>5.6%, oops.. well 5.5% was close... lol</p>
<p>Woah, Cornell's ED acceptance rate is hiiiiiigh. Ditto Penn's. Wish Yale's was higher. :</p>
<p>^^ That's basically saying the equivalent of "I wish Yale was bigger/had more than one undergraduate school" (these are the reasons why Penn and Cornell tend to have higher acceptance rates). But then that just wouldn't be Yale anymore, would it?</p>
<p>i like the fact that harvard, princeton, and yale have one undergraduate school.. it gives the opportunity for a liberal arts education that still has that university feel</p>
<p>and they're all absolute beasts when it comes to colleges... lol</p>
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are there any stats that tell the numbers? i have not come across any. Is it basically the 5.5% like the rest of the RD applicants or better/worse?
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I've never seen this number released for any school. On one hand, you would think it would be higher than the RD admit rate, because the deferred group (supposedly) does not include any clear rejects. On the other hand, it could include a lot of legacies who would be clear rejects if they weren't legacies, and who are destined to end up on the waiting list. Who knows?</p>
<p>Hunt: By the same token, nearly all the kids that they deem to be worth taking already are, which I think is a much more compelling argument. I wouldn't be surprised if this particular stat is less than 3%, even 2%. If you get deferred, just face it. You're not getting in. Work hard on your other apps rather than worry.</p>
<p>jir330, that's a reasonable hypothesis, but it may be completely wrong. It may be that the only people who get in early are those who would be at the very top of the pile in RD.</p>