<p>Hey,</p>
<p>How much does ED help in admissions? Im unhooked, with no legacies and Im not a URM. Is it a pretty substantial difference, or no? I think Im prob in that 25 % range of admitted students for standardized tests, so would ED be able to boost me up?</p>
<p>going to steal this thread for a second, but does anyone have a link for this year's thread of ED results? It'd probably help me and the op anyways :)</p>
<p>The ED admissions rate is significantly higher than the RD admissions rate. This year, I believe it was something like 40% accepted ED, and around 20% accepted RD. Those numbers aren't exact, but it was somewhere around there.</p>
<p>Applying ED demonstrates a commitment to NU, but just remember, if you are rejected, you can't apply later as an RD applicant. If you're willing to accept that fact, then by all means apply ED if Northwestern is your favorite school, and if you think you can afford it. (If you're accepted, you get stuck with whatever financial aid package they give you.)</p>
<p>Northwestern doesn't defer applicants in the early decision round, so even though they have a higher acceptance rate than comparable schools ED, they ultimately will take a similar percentage.</p>
<p>that's the link for this year's ED decisions.</p>
<p>The ED acceptance rate is pretty high because, as a poster said above me, they like to give you your decision in December and they only defer a small amount of their applicants. That was what I was told during an admissions info session at NU.</p>
<p>ED acceptance is definitely higher than RD......if u really like NU go applying it
Everything is risky....if u r qualified u will get into nu anyways</p>
<p>Nobody is defered at NU (unless that has changed for the upcoming year). They told us that you either are admitted in December or rejected all together. Their reasoning for this is that they don't think it's fair to keep you waiting because if they didn't want to have you in December they probably won't want to take you in April (as horrible as that sounds). But, becuase they don't defer, they said they are more willing to take kids who are on the fence because there is no second chance to be looked at again.</p>
<p>If you truly love NU, go ED.</p>
<p>And if you don't like it, you could always just go somewhere else after you're accepted.</p>
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Their reasoning for this is that they don't think it's fair to keep you waiting because if they didn't want to have you in December they probably won't want to take you in April
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<p>ahh, putting fairness to applicants above artificially improving their numbers. washu needs to take note.</p>
<p>I am doing ED, plus legacy, and URM sortof :)</p>