Would that ever happen? In the princeton review “best colleges” book, it says that the University of Rochester’s acceptance rate RD is higher than the ED rate. Really?
<p>I imagine a large portion of the EDers are deferred and accepted later during RD. It doesn't make sense otherwise.</p>
<p>Rochester is one of the rare exceptions with a 44% ED and 48% RD rate according to the latest US News annual.</p>
<p>Bumpppp. Why is CMU’s ED rate lower than its RD rate.</p>
<p>^Probably because they defer and then later accept a lot of people. Some colleges (for example MIT- which is EA, not ED) have a “quota” of the maximum number of people they will except ED/EA.</p>
<p>UGA EA accepts less than RD.</p>
<p>BC said on all the info last year that their EA was actually more competitive than RD and that only the top candidates should consider applying EA. I’m not sure what the actual stats are.</p>