<p>BerkeleyCS - I don’t think you can say that Dartmouth “is much less selective” in their ED acceptance rate. I am not sure what numbers you are looking at?? In 2017, they did accept almost 30% of their ED applicants compared to about 20% for Columbia for the average for the 3 years prior to now was about 9.5% compared to Columbia’s 7.5%. Neither of these differences is a 30% difference and the difference there is would need to be researched. For example, Dartmouth may have more varsity athletes being recruited? I don’t know. But to hedge your bets thinking that Dartmouth ED would be easier to get in to than Columbia may be a huge mistake for you. Honestly, Columbia and Dartmouth as about as opposite from each other that you can get – and I truly do not understand how you can be perfectly happy at Dartmouth as you would be at Columbia – one being a more rural setting, small town, 2 hours from a big city; the other being an urban setting smack dab in a huge city. Unless you simply want to go to any Ivy League you can. Research your potential majors, research the classes you might want to take, and pick the school that you would most want to go to.</p>