<p>I'm happy to hear all your success stories. I am Junior and would really to go to a school like McKenna. However, I just noticed their ED admit rate was really low for a LAC a couple of years ago, ~30%. Not very different to their RD admit rate. Does anyone know what their ED admit rate was for the C/O 2009? and do you guys think its worth applying ED?</p>
<p>It depends how much you want to go to CMC. At On Campus Day, the dean of admissions kept saying that because their admit rates arent much different, its truly not something you should use as a strategy to get in. If there is absolutely no doubt that you want to go there, go for it. If there is even a little possibility that you may end up choosing another school, I wouldn't do it because once you get in, that's it.</p>
<p>Well personally I love the school. If I get in, there's no doubt I'll be more than happy to go there. But I can same the same thing about a few other schools...</p>
<p>While CMC is my first option, I am scared because of their low admit rate I might not be able to get in, and it might ruin my chnaces to get in through ED to my second or third options. Do you see what I am trying to say? Thanks for replying.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the rates of admissions for ED and RD are quite similar. In 2008, that rate was much lower than in previous years as it was about 20%. </p>
<p>Freshman Class Profile
Class of 2008
Number applied 3,528
Number entering (Class of 2008) 280
Median combined SAT I score 1400
Percent of freshmen graduating in top tenth of their high school
class 83%</p>
<p>Wow 20%! Is that their ED or RD rate? That scares me. :(</p>
<p>I can say this school is truly a fit for me, and I think I would fit in right in the school, but I am scared that since I expect to be no better than an average at best (~1400 SAT, 3.6 uw GPA w/ toughest courseload.) I might get deferred.</p>
<p>Do you guys know how much other factors help when applying to CMC? For example, I have a good number of extracurriculars (Model UN, DECA marketing club, NHS, Math Club, Volunteering activities) and I will be trilingual by the time I graduate. I think that will be a plus since I plan to major in IR and Econ. I'm also Hispanic, I've been in the country for only 3 years, I am originally from Colombia. I am also an out of state applicant (from Florida) which I guess helps. </p>
<p>So a lot of things are going my way. But considering myself a stat freak, that acceptance rate just doesnt convince me. I hope it was higher this year.</p>
<p>This year, their ED rate was 26%.</p>
<p>thats really quite low... I was rejected ED actually, which makes me mad... cuz they don't defer a lot of ED applicants, and the ED applicants are the exact students that deserve to be deferred instead of rejected... the adcoms should know that they are loyal to the school, and will go in a heartbeat, but why do they do ED on a reject/accept basis only? I still dont understand. Any suggestions bl0nde?</p>
<p>I really don't know a whole lot about reject versus defer and I don't know anything about it for CMC. I actually don't even know if they really do reject instead of defer. I know some schools prefer one to the other, like I've heard Stanford defers almost no one and Harvard defers almost everyone.<br>
I'm sorry you didn't get in. Did you apply to any of the other Claremonts?</p>
<p>CMC doesnt defer at all, it is either accept or deny</p>
<p>yes izlar. that's the exact point I was making. In the ED rounds, I don't think it is fair not to defer a lot of kids simply because the ED pool of kids are usually more competative, and usually more qualified to get into CMC. Why would the adcom want to REJECT the ones that can't make the cut during ED, when they might be able to make the cut in the RD pool? Never made sense to me.</p>
<p>The admissions pool knows what type of applicants they're getting so they would pick the same ppl in RD or ED. For example, they can know whether or not to reject someone based off of their application alone, they do not need to compare it to other applications. That's my guess at least.</p>