<p>The lovely CaliforniaDancer posted the following numbers for EDI on another thread:</p>
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Swarthmore (binding, first of two rounds):
292 applications, compared to 302 last year, -10; 129 acceptances, compared to 126, +3; total anticipated class size: about 385
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<p>She and I are both applying EDII. Can anyone with more knowledge of Swarthmore ED comment on the historical admitted/applied numbers for EDII, as well as how this year's EDI stats compare beyond '13?</p>
<p>44%, not bad. I think that the ED II rate will be lower though.</p>
<p>^Yeah, I was shocked by 44%. Do you know what the EDII rate was last year?</p>
<p>no idea. I’m frantically looking for the admissions stats for ED I versus ED II for past years, with no luck. This much I know: swarthmore accepts 370 people a year. 130 of those seats have been filled. 240 seats remain. In the past, swarthmore has accepted 170 people though ED ([College</a> Search - Swarthmore College - Swat - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)). So there are like 40ish places left in ED acceptances, unless they intend to accept more people through ED this year because they are expecting a lower yield under RD or something</p>
<p>in any case, I’m troubled because I’m applying ED II.</p>
<p>also, they accept about 900ish people every year.</p>
<p>^Oh, nice, another EDII applicant :)</p>
<p>Thanks for posting, Keil - I, too, am very curious.
There isn’t a lot of info about EDII out there. I tried some searches on this board, but the only thing I really found was a comment that there tend to be few EDII applicants…but then again, I probably could have guessed that, and “few” is a relative term…</p>
<p>EDIT: I did find this article from last February <a href=“http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/2/20/ed-2013/[/url]”>http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/2/20/ed-2013/</a></p>
<p>^It has some numbers for EDI/EDII, but I’m finding it a little confusing…but it might make sense to someone else ;)</p>
<p>It says, total, 493 students applied ED under both the I & II plans. That means that last year, 302 applied ED I and 191 students applied ED II. Last year 126 of the 165 Early Decision accepted applicants, applied under the ED I plan. This leaves 39 spots for ED II acceptances, which, makes sense because the article defines them in the “dozens.” Therefore, if 39 of 126 ED II applicants were accepted last year, that leaves the ED II acceptance rate at 20.4%. Which kind of sucks because it’s not much higher than the RD rate and it’s less than half the ED I rate. </p>
<p>Thanks CaliforniaDancer.</p>
<p>I am an EDII applicant. I know of two students from my HS (which is in the McCabe scholarship region) who are also applying EDII. Historically, the McCabe has been awarded very strangely–one a few years ago (different school) was given it despite applying EDII, and last year one from my school was given it off the waitlist. The latter was legacy and had previously committed to Princeton when the call came on May 1.</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that they’re increasing total class size by a very small number–probably 15, since historically they’ve aimed for 370 and CD’s stats show an anticipated class size of 385. 20% of this increase has already been accomplished in EDI. 170/370 is 46% of the class filled through ED; if the base denominator is changed, then X=EDII and (129+X)/385 = .46 solves to X=48. If they stick with the same 46% of the class accepted through ED, then 177 total acceptances between the two rounds and 48 spots remaining.</p>
<p>Last year’s EDII rate is pretty discouraging. Although 48/126 would be 38%, I would predict an increase in EDII applicants… this year 0 from my school applied EDI and we’ve got 3, maybe 4 doing EDII.</p>
<p>You posted the number accepted through ED I in 2007 (129) at the top of the thread. I simply subtracted that number from the total number of ED acceptances in the link CaliforniaDancer just posted (165). I didn’t realize that they were increasing the class size. 48 spots for 191ish applicants still yields a 25% acceptance rate. It seems like they favor ED II significantly less.</p>
<p>Sorry, I retracted my question after I realized where you got the info. There’s a typo in your previous post #7:</p>
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<p>So, 25% acceptance rate. Lovely.</p>
<p>this: [Class</a> of 2013 Starts to Take Shape :: The Daily Gazette](<a href=“http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/2/20/ed-2013/]Class”>http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/2/20/ed-2013/)</p>
<p>It shows that 493 people applied ED last year, total. Your box at the top shows that 302 people applied ED I last year. Hence, I subtracted: total number of ED applicants in 2007 - ED I applicants in 2007. 493-302 = 191. 191 people applied ED II last year. 36 (165-129) of them were offered admission as I showed above. 36/191 equals 18.8%. This is low. I am sad.</p>
<p>sorry. The 126 was a typo. 191 people applied. The rate is 18.8, not 25. ImmanuelKant weeps.</p>
<p>^25% with the increased class size IF applicants do not increase accordingly. EDI applicants dropped by 10, but that doesn’t account for people rejected from their first-choice or non-binding schools and panicking.</p>
<p>And the numbers are so small that a minute change of 5-10 people–within the realm of random chance–leads to a large % change.</p>
<p>OH. with the increased class size. Also, they accepted 41% of their ED pool last year and 44% this year. So perhaps they’ll accept slightly more ED II applicants too? 25% seems like too much, I’d expect a 3ish% increase in the ED II acceptance rate too. Maybe 21%?</p>
<p>none of these numbers are comforting. :-/</p>
<p>The 25% was estimated based on them taking 46% of the new (larger) class, same as last year. But yes, none of the numbers are good…</p>
<p>Thanks for doing all the number crunching, Keil / ImmanuelKant…I tried, but I wasn’t sure if I had something wrong…nope, the EDII numbers are just not so great, unfortunately…</p>
<p>One person from my school applied EDI and was accepted (athletic recruit, though). As far as I know, I’m the only one applying EDII. </p>
<p>I can’t believe there’s such a big difference between EDI and EDII acceptance rates…</p>
<p>It’s probably because they assume that everybody in the ED II pool is composed of ED/EA I rejects, and hence do not love their school as much as the ED I pool.</p>