<p>Is there a significant difference in the admission rates between the two? </p>
<p>I'm just speculating but I feel ED II would be more competitive than RD with the ED deferrals and Ivy ED rejects in the same pool</p>
<p>Not too helpful, sorry, but I was wondering the same thing.</p>
<p>Firstly, ED1 deferrals are not reconsidered in the EDII round, they are reconsidered in the larger RD pool. I don’t really think there is anyone on CC who can truly answer your question since Midd does not have an adcom act as moderator or answer questions directly on CC. That being said, ED applicants are generally a self selecting group of students, and more importantly, most people applying to Midd are qualified on some level to attend the school. Having to choose a class out of the amazing applicants at Midd or any of the top tier schools is not an enviable job to me. I think the thing to consider is not how to compute your odds or chances, but rather to have a frank self evaluation. First, is Middlebury College the clear and first choice for me to the point of excluding all other options, and if so, do I fit the profile of the student population (that is not to say that you have to have x on your SAT etc… just in general, does your transcript and testing make you a reasonable applicant.) If the answer to both questions is yes, then write and submit your application. Try and reveal as much about who you really are in your application and choose recommenders who know you well and can give the people reading your app a sense of who you are and how you would fit in to the school community. Remember, realistically, your reader can spend 20-30 minutes on your app because from this time on, they are reading somewhere around 25+ applications a day. Best of luck to both of you if you decide to apply. It’s a great school and the students I have met are having a wonderful experience.</p>
<p>Karate dad said it perfectly. This is great advice for anyone applying to college.</p>
<p>ED > EDII > RD. Your chances of getting in are in this order.</p>
<p>Statistically that may be true, but there’s some evidence that ED applicants acre a self-selecting group and perhaps better qualified group. so while the acceptance rate for ED may be higher than RD, the quality of applicant may also be higher. Therefore, ED applicants may be up against higher competition.</p>
<p>ED2 will be better</p>
<p>Colleges always prefer people who prefer them. Don’t you?
ED2 will be a smaller number of applications than RD, more chance to shine, and the college knows you will come. If you are qualified, you are probably at least twice as likely to be accepted than RD. Now some of the ED2 are Ivy hopefuls who didn’t get a LL, so that does skew the pool somewhat, but I still think the numbers show a larger chance.</p>