Is there a place where early admission stats are available? I don’t see it in the Common Data Set.
Ideally I would like to find for many schools the ED/EA acceptance rate, and the the percent of the incoming class accepted ED/EA. Does this exist somewhere online or in a book?
You may find the EA/ED admission rate on the web, but the EA/ED admission stat (scores/GPA) is hard to find.
Here is one interesting one:
http://www.toptieradmissions.com/resources/statistics/
Some schools include info on the ED admission rate in their Common Data Set under section C21.
You can calculate acceptance rate for ED (# of applicants admitted under ED / # of Early Decision applications received) and percentage of class admitted ED (# of applicants admitted under ED / total # of admissions from B2). I’ve never seen a breakout of ED stats vs RD stats.
Some schools break it out on their website.
Keep in mind that the early admission rates are usually higher not because they get a substantial advantage, but because of the higher quality applicant pool (including legacy applicants, athletes, donors…). The stats of the early pool are also higher because they are applying early (they are confident in their numbers as they don’t use the first semester of senior year to improve upon them).