<p>Following the patterns of previous years:</p>
<p>Brown 617 3016 20.46%
Dartmouth 483 1856 26.02%
Duke 815 3180 25.63%
Harvard 977 5919 16.51%
MIT 625 6519 9.59%
Stanford 743 7297 10.18%
Williams 244 593 41.15%</p>
<p>Xiggi, could you tag each college’s listing with ED/EA/REA?</p>
<p>This might help (borrowed from another thread) </p>
<p>Amherst ED1 Dec 15
Babson ED Dec 9
Bard EA by Dec 31
Barnard ED Dec 11
Bowdoin ED Dec 11 after 7 pm
Brown ED Dec 11
Carnegie Mellon ED Dec 15
Claremont McKenna ED Dec 15
Colby ED Dec12 after 5 pm
Colorado College ED Dec15; EA Dec 18
Columbia ED Dec 11
Cornell ED Dec 11
Dartmouth ED Dec 12
Davidson Dec 15
Duke ED Dec 11 @ 7pm
Emory Dec 15
Georgetown Dec 15 by mail
Georgia Tech EA Jan 10
Hamilton Dec 12
Harvard SCEA Dec 11
Haverford ED Dec 12
Johns Hopkins ED Dec 12
Middlebury ED Dec 6 @ 8am
MIT EA Dec 13 @ 3:16pm
NYU Dec 15
NC State First Deadline (apply by Oct 15) Dec 15
Northwestern Dec 15
Pomona Dec 15
Princeton SCEA Dec 15
Purdue EA starts Dec 12 (rolling)
Rensselaer ED1 Dec13, ED2 Jan 17
Smith ED1 Dec 12 after 6pm
Stanford REA Dec 12 beginning 3 pm (Pacific Time)
Tulane EA by Dec 15
UMaryland Priority by Jan 31
UMich EA Dec 24
UPenn ED Dec 15
UVA EA Jan 31
Vanderbilt Dec 15
Vassar ED I Dec 11 @ ~5pm
Villanova ED Dec 20
Virginia Tech ED Dec 15
Wash U (WUSTL) ED Dec 15
Williams ED Dec 11 (evening)
Yale SCEA Dec 16 </p>
<p>thanks :)</p>
<p>Find it surprising that only 593 applied to Williams ED. Is that number correct?</p>
<p>@HarvestMoon1: Williams is a tiny LAC that most people have not heard of or value. That goes doubly so for internationals, who are heavily responsible for the rise in applicants to American colleges in recent years. BTW, I expect other LACs to have a similar number of ED applicants.</p>
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<p>What might be more surprising is that few people pay attention to the tremendous advantage of applying ED to schools such as Williams that are easily among the best 30 colleges/universities in the nation. The biggest issue is that many consider using an ED wildcard at schools such as Williams, Amherst, or Pomona as a negative as it precludes tossing the hat at the purported more prestigious schools. The rates of admission, and especially at the all-female schools, remain one of the best kept secrets. </p>
<p>For applicants who are sure about their choices, the strategy to look with close attention at the LACs is extremely rewarding in an era of single digits admissions. </p>
<p>@xiggi, agree about ED to LACs and especially all-female LACs, though keep in mind that a huge proportion of the EDs at a place like Williams are recruited athletes who are essentially auto-admits.</p>
<p>Of 1,865 students who sought early entry to Hopkins, 539 were accepted Friday. </p>
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<a href=“Northwestern admits nearly half the Class of 2019 through early decision”>http://dailynorthwestern.com/2014/12/16/campus/northwestern-admits-nearly-half-the-class-of-2019-through-early-decision/</a></p>
<p>The other problem with applying to Williams ED–superb school–is the virtual absence of merit aid. So if you need merit aid, you can’t use your ED for that school, even though it is terrific.</p>
<p>@ColdinMinny, that is true, but there’s no merit aid at the Ivies, MIT, or Stanford either, and they get deluged with applications.</p>
<p>Also, if you need merit aid, you shouldn’t be applying ED anywhere (possible EA to places like UMich and others who prioritize merit money for their EA applicants).</p>
<p>Williams often leads the Ivies on “best college” lists. There is an “ephblog,” which covers all things Williams. They’re discussing the early decision round right now. (I won’t link, due to CC’s TOS, but a search for ephblog will lead you there.)</p>
<p>I saw a number that there are 66 recruited athletes at Amherst–about the same as Williams. So that’s about one quarter of students admitted ED. Legacies are admitted at a 50 percent rate but that’s misleading since the word gets back to alums not to bother unless your kids stats are otherwise competitive. It’s s self-selected group of legacies that apply. That 50 percent acceptance yields 10 percent of the student body being legacy. The Amherst admissions director said they’ll drop as low as 1200 SAT for football or hockey but not as low for other sports. In many cases, legacy, hooks are tie breakers for otherwise competitive </p>
<p>I think the Ivy League allows circa 250 recruited athletes per school, so that would be in proportion to the elite lacs. </p>
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<p>The Ephs I know would emphasize the word “purported.” Hundreds of high-stat students chose to apply to a top LAC and thereby make it easier for others to get into HYP. </p>
<p>“Williams is a tiny LAC that most people have not heard of or value.”</p>
<p>Wow PurpleTitan thats pretty harsh. I always thought of Williams as a very good school. Wasn’t on my D’s list but a lot of her classmates had it among their top choices.</p>
<p>Most importantly, I think the top graduate schools, are quite familiar with Williams, Swarthmore, ect. As Periwinkle stated, these top LACs often lead the Ivies in the rankings for top colleges. So while perhaps the top LACs aren’t well known to the general public, they are definitely known by the people who need to know.</p>
<p>People whose opinion matters have heard of Williams. And they respect it; for very good reasons. </p>
<p>@HarvestMoon1, I consider Williams (and Amherst and Swarthmore) all great schools, about on par with HYPSM.</p>
<p>However, the profs of top grad schools aren’t applying to college (and their children don’t form a significant part of the population).</p>
<p>Among the general applicant pool (especially the international portion), Williams and other LACs are indeed small schools that most of them have never heard of or value.</p>
<p>@katliamom: I agree. I’m explaining why the top LACs don’t get deluged with ED apps the way that the top RUs are, though.</p>
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<p>It may not work with ED to expect scholarships but I was surprised to learn during 2014 admissions that there were several named scholarships, many of them not FA based. Some were paying almost full cost of college.</p>
<p>Honestly @PurpleTitan you seem to talk in circles. What exactly is your point?</p>