How would you rank these schools?

Applying to College
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<p>Which school, assuming I am applying ED, is the easiest (relatively) to get in to. This is not based on my stats, just the fact that I know that some schools may be somewhat easy to get in to ED, but extremely tough and harder than many other schools RD.</p>

<p>Assuming I am a white CT male: Put these schools in order from easiest to hardest (Early Decision):
Cornell
Colgate
Bowdoin
CMU
Vanderbilt
Northwestern</p>

2

<p>CMU
Vanderbilt (From CT)
Bowdin
Colgate
Northwestern
Cornell</p>

3

<p>Cornell
Northwestern
CMU
Vanderbilt
Bowdoin
Colgate</p>

4

<p>Colgate
Vanderbilt
CMU
Bowdoin
Northwestern
Cornell</p>

5

<p>go on collegeboard and look at early decision applicants and early decision acceptees...then just divide.</p>

<p>thats a lot better than asking us.</p>

6

<p>Cornell and CMU are both ED whores. They take almost 50% ED acceptance rate. Subsequently, Cornell and CMU are both considerably harder to get into via regular decision.</p>

7

<p>wow I am really surprised some of you have said I would have any easier chance getting into cornell than colgate. This is making me rethinking my ED choices greatly-thanks for the input!</p>

8

<p>well, take a look at some of the stats people have posted for being accepted ED to Cornell. Though the acceptance rate hovers in the high 30% range, the students that are generally admitted are very well qualified. I wouldn't say Colgate is harder to get into.</p>

9

<p>I recommend that you check out the collegeboard website. It gives a rough idea of the percentage accepted at each school under early decision.</p>

10

<p>Bowdoin 1
Northwestern 2
Cornell 2-3
Colgate 4
Vanderbilt 5
CMU 6</p>

<p>Bowdoin is an extremely competitive school.</p>

11

<p>Cornell- 41.5%
CMU- 52.8%
Colgate- 48.9%
Bowdoin- 29.5%
Vanderbilt- 48.4%
Northwestern- 49.7%</p>

<p>From Collegeboard</p>