<p>can anyone give me a good scenario/stats for someone who could hold the potential of winning the gamble of early admission? thanks</p>
<p>Where…</p>
<p>What are you referring to:</p>
<p>Early Decision: high school seniors apply to a college for ED and if accepted must attend (generally somewhat easier to get in ED than regular admission)</p>
<p>Early Action: high school seniors apply and get early, but not binding, decision. Varies among schools but can potentially be more difficult than regular admission at some.</p>
<p>Early Admission: high school junior skips senior year and applies and gets accepted to college to start after high school junior year: many colleges don’t have this, those that do accept few, and generally you need to be someone extraordinary.</p>
<p>oh, please excuse my ignorance. I was referring to early decision… lets say, UPenn</p>
<p>can you give examples of schools that have early action?</p>
<p>At Penn you would have a good shot at ED acceptance if your stats were 75th percentile and you are an otherwise strong candidate. If you are from an overrepresented state and/or your school/region sends many applicants, it may be an especially good strategy to apply early.</p>
<p>how do you know if youre from an overrepresented state (im from FL)? where does it say that online haha</p>
<p>how do you know if you’re 75th percentile… as in your SAT scores (how they line up?)</p>
<p>OP … the internet is your friend here for you to do your own searching. </p>
<p>Here on CC there is a search function on the top tool bar … it is easy to search for lists of EA or ED schools (this search will work on google also)</p>
<p>There are numerous sites and guidebooks that have info about each individual school … this will include info on their applications (dates things are dues, ED or EA, etc) as well as stats about accepted students (average GPAs, average SATs or ACTs. 25% and 75% range for SATs and ACTS, geographic dispersion of students, etc). A couple of those sites are college<em>board.com and princeton</em>review.com (take out the underscores)</p>
<p>Good luck in your hunt … when you have much more specific questions the CC community can provide much more specific help.</p>
<p>“At Penn you would have a good shot at ED acceptance if your stats were 75th percentile and you are an otherwise strong candidate. If you are from an overrepresented state and/or your school/region sends many applicants, it may be an especially good strategy to apply early.”
Redroses : Would you care to elaborate? Why is it “especially” good to apply early if you’re 75 percentile - wouldn’t such a candidate be just as likely to get in during the regular admissions round?</p>
<p>Also, would this strategy work for early action schools like Yale or Stanford?</p>
<p>Someone with scores in the 75th percentile is statistically qualified but may be less-than-remarkable as a whole (no national awards/otherwise incredible ECs). Remember that admissions to top schools are increasingly competitive for the unhooked applicant, and ED is one of the few ways unhooked applicants still have to hedge their bets. You offer the school a guarantee to attend if accept</p>
<p>EA, and especially SCEA, does not follow the same logic. You are not bound to attend if accepted, and in many cases, the EA pool is more competitive than the RD pool. Adcoms will say that only those who would stand out in any admissions pool–that is, the truly exceptional, the legacies, the athletes, and the otherwise hooked–are accepted EA, so it’s not a way to increase your chances.</p>
<p>Here’s how it works. The candidate has at least 75th percentile stats, acceptable ECs and is from Miami. Penn will accept 4 people fitting that description for the class. They will get 50 appllicants from kids fitting that description between the 2 rounds. </p>
<p>Penn cares about yield and accepts over half the class ED. Those that apply ED and are strong candidates are more likely to fill those 4 seats. No guarantee, but considering the low acceptance rate most with 75th percentile stats will be rejected. Penn has a bird in the hand if the candidate has the things they were looking for and he comes with a 100% chance of attending. Great for rankings.</p>
<p>This does not work anywhere near as well at Stanford or Yale. As their early rounds do not require committment, their yields are not impacted. They have such high yields anyway. Applying early really doesn’t help at those schools. They accept their athletes, legacies and superstars in the early round.</p>
<p>when you guys say “superstars” do you mean academically or in terms of resume/leadership/other non-academic things?</p>
<p>^Both. People who would be accepted regardless of the strength of the RD (Regular Decision) admissions pool. People I know who’ve been accepted Yale SCEA: high-stat legacies from top prep schools, and a national debate champion who was a candidate for Presidental Scholar.</p>
<p>Applicants without quite this starpower may be better off looking for early admission at a slightly less competitive school like UChicago and waiting for RD.</p>