<p>Which kind of admission is favored most?ED,RD or EA.I am just thinking about applying to Northwestern or MIT or Cornell with ED.I know that I won't get into any of them if I apply with RD.And I am convinced that ED or EA would multiply my chances of getting into those acme universities.Am I right?</p>
<p>If you are so sure you wouldn’t get in rd, chances are the Ed boost won’t help you.</p>
<p>No college is going to admit a student EA/ED that they wouldn’t think of even admitting RD. If you have a semi-decent chance of getting admitted RD, then you may want to think of EA/ED, but you may also be deferred/rejected, because EA/ED is usually self-selected.</p>
<p>ED will help, EA will not.</p>
<p>generally the statistics show that your chances are nearly doubled with ED
however ED wont get you in if, like mentioned above, you are way out of range
keep in mind that ED isnt for students who are dependent on a financial aid package
I couldn’t apply ED to Stanford cause of an unstable financial situation at home.
I was wait listed at Stanford and didnt make it. Looking back I bet ED woulda made the difference. Oh well, I’ll be happy at Rice
Go Owls!</p>
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<p>No, you couldn’t have ED’d stanford because stanford doesn’t have ED.</p>
<p>Also Cornell’s fin-aid is pretty generous to EDers. I know quite a few people with full fin-aid (no loans) who are EDers. They’re also international.</p>
<p>seriously Stanford doesnt have ED?
well that makes me feel better
i guess i just assumed all colleges had ED</p>
<p>amdn, No, Harvard and Priceton stopped ED few years ago. MIT and Caltech adopt non-binding EA. Stanford has non-binding but restrctive EA. U Mich does ER (Early Response).
And so on.</p>
<p>admissions is getting to be too complicated
glad my round is over
good luck to all future applicants…</p>
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<p>No, statistics do not show your chances are doubled.</p>
<p>Chance is random, it implies all the apps being dumped into a box and then “randomly” drawing out a predetermined number; that is not the admissions process. I refer you to the following article about this year’s Dartmouth ED class:</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com</a> | 401 members of Class of 2013 admitted early](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2009/01/05/news/ed]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2009/01/05/news/ed)</p>
<p>The salient points are:</p>
<p>401/1571 were accepted (25.5%) (36% of the total class)
140 (9%) were deferred, therefore 65.6% were outright rejected
14 (10%) of the deferred can expect to be admitted RD (lower than the 15% full RD acceptance rate)
87% of the EDs were top 10% in their class (about the same as the general class)
AVG SATs are 2132 (707 CR, 715 M, 715 W) - roughly the 50th%-tile of the overall class</p>
<p>In other words, if your profile isn’t somewhere close to the 50th%-tile or better, your “chances” aren’t any better at all. Historically ED has been a way for colleges to populate a significant proportion of a class with their “average” profile. It’s also been the place for recruited athletes and legacies to apply, but NOT AT THE EXPENSE of the overall academic profile. If you don’t have the stats to get in RD you’re not going to magically be qualified because you go ED.</p>
<p>lol i guess pompous one-upers are still rampant in cc
i was referring to “chance” in the vernacular sense
i swear to god are there no normal people left on this forum?</p>
<p>^hehe. touche!</p>
<p>Someone mentioned that EA doesn’t help… um, why not? Doesn’t Early Action show interest in a school as well?</p>
<p>I did. I’m just repeating what people from MIT and stanford have said, that’s all.</p>
<p>For lower schools, it could possibly help, but remember, you can EA any number of schools, so it doesn’t really mean that much. SCEA shows interest, but the ones I can think of with SCEA (stanford and Yale) doesn’t care about demonstrated interest because everyone is/should be interested in them.</p>
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<p>This board is supposed to be about distributing accurate information. If you’d rather use the “vernacular” and give people a false sense of hope, be my guest, just don’t be surprised when you’re called out on it.</p>
<p>Try that argument in a college statistics class, see how it works out for you.</p>
<p>Good luck at Rice, you’re going to need it.</p>
<p>So,…If I am going to be merely admitted with RD,my chances will be better with ED?I got 650 on TOEFL,720 Maths 2,780 Chem and 770 Physics.Not bad huh?I haven’t taken SAT ,but I am sure that I am going to get over 2100.By the way,Cornell,MIT and Dartmouth,which school admits the most number of EDers?</p>
<p>Argh…maths…don’t…break…computer</p>
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The whole point of ED is that it requires a set number of students to matriculate. At many top colleges, ED/SCEA admits make up ~48% of the entering class. SCEA does not require matriculation, but it has a far higher yield than EA.</p>
<p>With this increased yield, colleges can afford to be far more selective in the RD round, driving down the overall admit rate and making them appear more selective and prestigious.</p>
<p>^Thanks IBclass06 and username! I would love to apply ED to certain schools, (LOL, I really need that boast from ED), but since financial aid is really important for me, I’ll probably end up applying EA to several places. </p>
<p>Lintin 1, here’re some stats from U.S. News Ultimate College Guide that may help. This was from 2007 or 06, so most admission rates have gone down since then.</p>
<p>School: EA or ED/ Early Acceptance Rate/ Non-early rate
Dartmouth: ED / 30% / 14%
MIT: EA / 12% / 14%
Northwestern: ED / 44% / 29%
Stanford: SCEA / 19% / 9%</p>
<p>By the way, just to show that EA sometimes does help as well, here’s Chicago:
U of Chicago: EA / 49% / 34%</p>
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<li><p>ED doesn’t automatically mean no fin-aid. As I’ve said, I know many internationals who ED’d cornell and got a full aid. If the aid really isn’t enough, you can break the ED contract. </p></li>
<li><p>EA students tend to have higher admit rates because most of the recruited athletes and other hooked applicants apply EA. A higher admit percentage does not necessarily mean “easier”.</p></li>
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