<p>So what's the consensus on ED? Does it actually help your admissions, like at some other notable colleges? (e.g. Cornell, Vanderbilt, etc).</p>
<p>ED kinda of helps your admissions.
It’s more the case that like you’re going to be a qualified person if you want to go somewhere so badly that you apply ED.</p>
<p>The % of accepted for ED is also higher since such candidates are more qualified.</p>
<p>That’s what admissions officers have said but I still think applying anywhere ED still increases your chances a little bit.</p>
<p>Yes, at 95% of the schools it does, and at some schools quite significantly. But at HYMPS (or whatever), it doesn’t really help that much.</p>
<p>HPYMS. haha gotta remember the rank off of US World News Report (or whatever) :]</p>
<p>ED helps a lot actually. Your chances outside ED is about 25% while for ED it increases to 30% (the admissions office advertises this also).</p>
<p>And if you are OOS it helps even more because ED is to fill up OOS spots</p>
<p>Okay, sounds good…the more I look at Rice, the more I love…so I may very well end up applying there ED. How significant in admissions is freshman year? I have an extremely strong upward trend, but my freshman year is seriously lacking…mostly B’s. I honestly really don’t know what went wrong, but it brings me down from like top 5 in the grade to around 15th (still top 10% though), and from a 4.3ish gpa to a 4.1ish gpa. Basically, without my freshman year I’d say my chances are really good…so I’m hoping they would overlook it, but is that too much to ask?</p>
<p>Strong upward trends are good… (obviously). I wouldn’t worry about it too much. It’s not like you failed every other class. Straight B’s on the lower part of an upward trend is okay.</p>
<p>if you have a bad freshman year, but a great upward trend, and your overall GPA is very solid.</p>
<p>Makes you look that much stronger</p>