<p>Do applicants always have better chances to be admitted by applying with early decision?</p>
<p>It really, really depends on the college. If you’re talking about Johns Hopkins, ED helps, but if you’re talking about Columbia, no.</p>
<p>ED is generally filled with applicants who believe they are fit for the university and that is why the “acceptance rate” in ED is higher in some cases but if you believe that you are an average accepted student for the university I suggest applying RD.</p>
<p>So I must be better than average students to apply for ED right?</p>
<p>Catria what about NYU or Tufts? Do u have an idea??</p>
<p>No. I think color meant that if u fall a little below the avg accepted then u apply ED. If ur spot on, then RD.</p>
<p>Tufts? It doesn’t help very much. NYU? Not if you’re not good enough for RD.</p>
<p>Can you apply to more than one school ED? You’re saying if a school is kind of a reach apply ED?</p>
<p>No, you can only apply to one school ED. Apply ED to the school of your best interest. If you get accepted, then you must attend that school. However, if the FinAid offered by the school is too low, then you are not obliged to attend.</p>
<p>The advantage of apply ED varies from school to school. Many top schools said it would not affect your chance too much although the acceptance rate for EA/ED is always higher. But for those prestigious schools, there is no reason for them to accept less qualified students early as they would not even accept most of the highly qualified students anyway. I think the admission stat would still be a good reference point for consideration. I would suggest to apply EA/ED if you are at or above the average of admission stat or with hooks. That would be the main composition of candidates for EA/ED anyway. Otherwise, you may want to to bring up your scores before trying RD.</p>
<p>Hey I saw the info on college board. It provides the applicant number of ED and the actual accepted number, and it shows significant difference. (I only took a look on Tufts since it’s my first choice.)</p>
<p>^ The acceptance rate for ED is definitely higher than RD. However, applying ED with the same credential may or may not have a higher chance to be accepted than applying RD. If your scores or GPA can be improved during the first semester of senior, you probably should wait a little bit and apply RD. Some schools like Stanford would reject, instead of defer, most students who are not accepted in EA. Applying ED with a weaker credential is not a good idea.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
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<p>Can anyone please Chance me?</p>
<p>@billcsho what you said is pretty reasonable and I really do score bit lower than average to some schools I want to apply to. However, I heard that the benefit in applying by ED is that, the school will think this student does want to get admitted, since one can only apply for one ED school. To ensure the ratio of enrollment, the school might give extra credits on ED or EA students. Is that true?</p>
<p>^ Again. If your scores and GPA are below their admission average, doing ED/EA may not help much. You should justify whether or not to improve your score and apply RD. If you are not going to retake a test or there is little room for GPA improvement, then you may still give it a try as it is not going to make any difference.</p>