<p>IS there any difference is difficulty/how the adcoms assess applications if you apply Early decisions?</p>
<p>At the info session at Brown they said there is no difference in difficulty and that the admit rate is so much higher than RD due to recruited athletes and legacies and that ED pools in general are more self-selecting, but I still believe there is a little bit of an advantage due to the fact that you have declared Brown as your first choice. The advantage is probably not very large at all though. ONLY apply ED if Brown is your clear-cut first choice.</p>
<p>^ And also if financial aid is not important to you or if you’ll settle for what you get; since ED binds you to a single school, you can’t compare schools’ FA packages.</p>