http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/646969/node/504677
Last year they accepted 40% through ED.
Food for thought. My main take away is that they’re doing to this be able to reject more rd applicants and therefor improve their ranking by increasing their yield rate and lowering their acceptance rate. It’s all a fun game.
Or perhaps they had an incredibly talented group of ED applicants and decided to accept more of them than last year?
I don’t believe the ED applicant group was 25% better from last year.
@Ksty1098 they would only need to accept 54 more students out of the thousands of applications they receive to make that difference. Doesn’t seem that unlikely.
54 out of 633 is nearly 10% of those applying. Sounds far fetched. Last year they had 30 more application as well.
Think that 40% will be accepted in the ED2 round?
It could be that they did not want to say no to 25% more ED applicants this year over last for a variety of reasons- perhaps the pool of athletic recruits was particularly strong. Perhaps there were a number of compelling candidates any way you look at it. A record 25% of ED admits are students of color. The admissions committee knows the class it wants to build, they seem pretty darn good at it, I see no reason for them not to take more ED kids this year if they know they would want to take them in the RD round anyway.
Early Decision applicants have given up a lot to focus on one single school by making a commitment to that one school. It makes sense for a college to make a return commitment to such students if they feel the student meets the college needs.
It makes sense in so many ways to accept a large ED pool if it looks good-the student will attend, and the student feels Midd is the best spot for them-why not just accept them if they are highly qualified.