<p>This link was posted else where. The odds of acceptance go way down for RD.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/15/education/thechoice-2013-acceptance-rates.html/?_r=1&%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/15/education/thechoice-2013-acceptance-rates.html/?_r=1&</a></p>
<p>2013 GT Acceptance Rate
2013 Total Applicants -17,663
2013 Accepted - 6,954
2013 Denied -7,709<br>
2013 Wait-Listed -2,610<br>
2013 Early Admit Rate - 57.00%
2013 Regular Admit Rate - 18.00%
2013 Overall Admit Rate - 39.37%</p>
<p>2012 GT Acceptance Rate
2012 Total Applicants -14,731
2012 Accepted - 8,036
2012 Denied -4,957<br>
2012 Wait-Listed -1,106
2012 Early Admit Rate - 60.00%
2012 Regular Admit Rate - 33.00%
2012 Overall Admit Rate - 54.55%</p>
<p>2011 GT Acceptance Rate
2011 Total Applicants -14,227<br>
2011 Accepted - 7,325
2011 Denied - 5,725<br>
2011 Wait-Listed - 1,185<br>
2011 Early Admit Rate - 58.00%
2011 Regular Admit Rate - 32.00%
2011 Overall Admit Rate - 51.49%</p>
<p>Great stats. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>Why might the rates be that different? Could it be that more of the ‘talent’ applies early, knowing that is what it takes to get considered for the most merit aid? </p>
<p>It sounds like you might be assuming an equal distribution of talent, but I don’t think that is the case at all. Which might then mean it doesn’t matter when you apply, in terms of your odds of getting in, but if you’re towards the top of the pool, it would help you to get considered for the merit aid…</p>
<p>You have to apply ea to be considered for the presidential scholars program and the honors program, so I think it’s a fair assumption that the ‘better’ (and I use that term loosely, no offense intended) students tend to apply ea to be considered for these options</p>
<p>This is probably more correlation than causation. The more qualified students are more likely to be on top of the ball and apply EA, while the marginal in-state kids who apply to GT just because are much more likely to apply RD (and those highly qualified kids would have already sent in their apps EA, doubly diluting the RD pool).</p>
<p>That’s part of it, but 40% is a HUGE gap - there’s no way that’s the only reason. Your explanation is applicable to any well-ranked university with ED/RD, but you don’t see many of those schools with 40% gaps in acceptance rate between ED/RD.</p>
<p>If a bunch of marginal people start applying early, they will get deferred. GT does not want to risk letting in early somebody who has a decent chance of getting denied later.</p>
<p>^ I’m not sure I agree with the fact the EA pool has more qualified students. Now granted my son was accepted EA…
but still. I think it may also have to do with the fact that by applying EA you are showing GT that you really are interested in attending. Therefore they may pick more people in EA based on that fact alone. Think about it. If you have 2 similar applicants: one hustled and got all the information in to them by October 15th and the other took their sweet time and applied by December 15th which one would YOU choose?</p>
<p>The post is somewhat misleading. The suggestion of applying early having better impact on a decision is typically considered with Early Decision policies. Early Action policies don’t really offer an advantage or disadvantage in admissions decisions because there is nothing that is binding. </p>
<p>So a 40% gap as its being described isn’t really a cause for any concern. Just as GPBurdell32 says, those who aren’t clear cut admits would just get deferred and placed into the regular decision pool.</p>
<p>*MichiganGeorgia…that logic only works with ED decisions, because they are binding. Applying EA doesn’t really show that a person is more likely to enroll moreso than they want to be considered for the bigger scholarships.</p>
<p>^ I’m not sure it works that way for in state students. Remember most if not all Georgia admits are going to start out with the Georgia Hope Zell Miller Scholarship for free tuition… Given the high stats for most GT admits my son assumed he most likely wouldn’t get one of the few scholarships that GT offers. He just wanted to know if GT was going to be an option for him or whether he would need to go Out of State for college.</p>
<p>I applied early action as an out of state resident and got accepted this year, and although I can’t say it conclusively, I’m pretty confident that me applying early action was a major reason for my acceptance.</p>
<p>I’d say that GTech was most surprised out of anyone that they got this many applicants (Not that they don’t deserve it, being an internationally renown engineering institution and all), but a drop in regular acceptance rate from 33% to 18% is massive, and for overall, 55% to 39% is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I’m an Indian male student applying from out of state (CT) for engineering, so the odds were already stacked against me. If I had to do it again, I’d always apply early, even if it was EA and not ED. Early applications always get a favorable review, and I was one of the earliest.</p>