<p>I was just wondernig what are some top schools that have a high acceptance rate when you apply early decision or early action. I have heard of some schools that hav a acceptance rate 20 percent higher than their regular decision acceptance rate. I was wondering what are some schools that have this quality</p>
<p>Sorry I can't provide you with a list, but be aware that a lot of the time, legacies and athletes apply early to get their admissions boosts. Also, the early pool is generally more self selecting.</p>
<p>Applying early might give you a small boost, but nothing huge like the percentage would suggest.</p>
<p>what do you mean by self selecting?</p>
<p>I think it helps a lot at Penn.</p>
<p>Well using my Princeton Review Best 357 Colleges 2005 edition (thanks again) which means the numbers are like two or three years old now, for some top schools the ED rate is: (first number is number that applied, second is %accepted)</p>
<p>American University: 380 - 52%
Amherst College - 374 - 35%
Babson College - 201 - 50%
Barnard College - 337 - 45%
Bates College - 437 - 48%
Bentley College - 197 - 63%
BU - 502 - 50%
Bowdoin College - 552 - 30%
Brandeis University - 297 - 72%
Brown University - 1871 - 25%
Bryn Mawr - 146 - 53%
Bucknell - 643 - 50%
Carleton - 459 -44%
CMU- 273 - 49%
Claremont McKenna - 182 - 30%
Clemson - 436 - 42%
Colby - 505 - 40%
Colgate - 657 - 54%
College of New Jersey - 508 - 35%
College of William and Mary - 1046 - 48%
Columbia - 1802 - 26%
Connecticut College - 329 - 60%
Cooper Union - 251 - 53%
Cornell University - 2730 - 41%
Dartmouth - 1216 - 33%
Davidson - 374 - 56%
Duke - 1423 - 33%
Elon - 454 - 77%
Emory - 735 - 61%
Flagler - 655 - 57%
F&M - 274 - 65%
Gettysburg - 309 - 69%
Hamilton - 434 - 45%
Harvey Mudd - 85 - 55%
Haverford - 202 - 51%
Kenyon - 174 - 84%
Lafayette - 367 - 66%
Macalester - 255 - 46%
Middlebury - 767 - 34%
Mount Holyoke - 289 - 62%
Muhlenberg - 448 - 66%
NYU - 3256 - 48%
Northwestern - 984 - 46%
Oberlin - 341 - 69%
Occidental - 106 - 45%
Pomona - 380 - 29%
Princeton - 2413 - 20%
Reed - 162 - 62%
Rice - 452 - 28%
RIT - 840 - 76%
Sarah Lawrence - 181 - 55%
Scripps - 81 - 58%
Siena - 94 - 66%
Skidmore - 382 - 58%
Smith - 224 - 70%
Stevens - 76 - 47%
Swarthmore - 304 - 45%
Syracuse - 748 - 66%
Trinity [CT] - 452 - 60%
Tufts - 1313 - 39%
Union [NY] - 262 - 74%
U Delaware - 1519 - 52%
U Florida - 2952 - 60%
U Miami - 790 - 31%
U Penn - 3390 - 33%
U Richmond - 403 - 51%
U Rochester - 426 - 41%
U Vermont - 241 - 78%
U Virginia - 2385 - 38%
Vanderbilt - 891 - 50%
Vassar - 556 - 44%
Virginia Tech - 2340 - 50%
Wabash - 47 - 79%
Wake Forest - 529 - 55%
Washington and Lee - 426 - 54%
Webb - 24 - 33%
Wellesley - 180 - 68%
Wesleyan [CT] - 672 - 44%
Wheaton [MA] - 262 - 75%
Whitman - 142 - 82%
Williams - 559 - 38%
WPI - 195 - 78%
Yale - 4040 - 16%</p>
<p>So I hope this helps some, took lot of time so I hope it's appreciated</p>
<p>go read the book "The Early Admissions Game". It says a lot about these things, and from what I read Princeton has a really big boost when applying ED.</p>
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<p>It means people with higher stats generally apply, as if they select themselves based on their stats to apply. For example, if an average applicant has a 3.0 GPA and a 1700 SAT, then the pool might not be self selective for most top colleges. However, if the average applicant early has a 3.9 GPA and a 2250 SAT, then the pool can be considered self-selective.</p>
<p>A more specific way schools can be self-selecting is by more individual school features. E.g., someone who wants to earn a PhD in a specific discipline might select an undergraduate school whose graduates go on to earn a PhD (at any other school) in that field at an especially high rate. E.g. again, BS graduates of CalTech go on to earn a PhD in math & computer sciences, sciences and engineering, and physics at rates higher than those of any other undergraduate school.</p>
<p>Oberlin-~75% ED, ~35% RD.</p>
<p>According to Collegeboard.</p>
<p>Reed -- ED 61%, RD 44%.</p>
<p>I did arithmetic from 2005-2006 numbers on Reed's web site.</p>
<p>Last year Scripps' ED acceptance rate was actually lower than it's RD acceptance rate (43% vs. 46%).</p>
<p>Strange but true.</p>
<p>Yea, it was funny, the year from these stats, for TCNJ:
ED: 35%
RD: 48%
quite the hefty margin.</p>
<p>A dumb question but what is legacy?? Money?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins and Emory...their ED acceptance rate is ~50%</p>
<p>Hmmm, legacy is basically, well daddy went here or grandpops or four generations of my family went to this college, or mom teaches here, so b/c of them I have a better chance of getting in. However, the main reason for legacies, as you alluded to, is money, and colleges will favors legacies b/c usually old generations have or do put money in the college's pocket and this is basically their reward. There are even cases of being bought into school, or school's cleverly putting a legacy on the waitlist so that mom or dad or gramps will give like a building and then their kid will be accepted.</p>
<p>Oh and sorry about the numbers, yeah they're like two or three years old and just put them up for a general feeling of what to expect, so um, they are accurate as far as I know, but sorry if this complicates what you know now about a college's numbers.</p>
<p>tony.. i REALLY apperciate it! its exactly what i was looking for. its interesting to see the difference in percents.</p>
<p>For the fall I am going to try to use it to my advantage, we will see how it goes.</p>
<p>the book "the early admission game".. i was wondering what it discussed. did it take the side that you can in somewhere EA/ED where you could not get in regular decesion?</p>
<p>Oh np, Nicole, good luck with everything next year :)</p>
<p>Here's a synopsis as by Amazon, I think it pretty much answers what you need:</p>
<p>Book Description
Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process. �The Early Admissions Game is intended as an expos�, for high-school students and their parents, of the realities of college admissions, but it is also a protest against the practice of early admissions. The authors believe that these programs benefit privileged students � [and] cheat disadvantaged students.� �Louis Menand, New Yorker �The authors present a devastating portrait of elite college admissions�and early admissions in particular�as an elaborate and complicated �game� � [where the winners] tend to be privileged students who have access to highly skilled counselors with information pipelines to elite college admissions offices.� �Peter Sacks, The Nation</p>
<p>Also, I hear another excellent book to help beat the odds is "A is for Admission:The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges " by Michele A. Hernandez</p>