Early Decision Numbers for Wesleyan?

<p>Hi all,
I remember seeing the acceptance percentage for students who applied to Wesleyan ED, but I can't seem to find them again. Does anyone have the % of students who were accepted to Wesleyan when they applied ED? I think it was quite a bit higher than the RD acceptances, unlike some other schools, where they were pretty similar. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>For class of 2011, I'm loking at a graph, so it won't be exact, but it looks like 290 out of 675 were accepted ED, giving a 43% acceptance rate. 1,739 out of 7,074 were accepted RD, giving a 24.6% acceptance rate. So yes, ED acceptance rate was almost twice as high as RD.</p>

<p>Thanks for the info - that is what I was thinking, somewhere in the 40s.</p>

<p>adigal: Early decision acceptance rates at most of the elite schools are much higher than regular decision rates -- Harvard, Brown, Columbia and many others all took about twice the percentage of early applicants this year as they did regular applicants. But the colleges say (and it seems true) that the early pool is also much more qualified than the regular pool, so the boost you get from an early app -- while real -- isn't quite as great as it appears.</p>

<p>Thanks for the info - do the colleges publicize the statistics to show that the ED pool is much stronger than the other applicants? Or do people think they just say that, and they really want to make sure their classes are full? I cannot imagine Wesleyan worrying about filling their class with intelligent, interesting kids - it is such a great school!!</p>

<p>There's a lot of talk about the relative strenght of ED and RD pools, but not much data.</p>

<p>One point that is generally acknowledged, though, is that the ED pool tends to have a disproportionate share of legacies and recruited athletes (and perhaps some other hooked candidates) so the ED admit numbers cannot be taken at face value for someone not in those categories. That said, howver, it seems to me pretty clear that admit rates even for the unhooked are measurably better in the ED round than the RD round at places like Wesleyan, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, Haverford, Pomona etc. (not to mention, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton etc.). I mean, for example, this year (Class of 2011), Williams ED admit rate was 40.6%; its overall admit rate is 17.4% (meaning its RD rates is lower than that). Not all of that difference is explained by legacies and athletes in the ED round. So unhooked kids were probably not admitted at a 40.6% rate ED -- but pretty clearly at a decidedly better rate that 17.4%.</p>

<p>Thanks for the information - kids have to consider so much in making this decision!!!</p>