<p>Is there any website I can go to that will show the percentage of students that are admitted ED to colleges? My son has looked at a number of colleges, probably about 12 total. There are maybe 2 or 3 that are at the top of the list, but none of them stands out like a shining star. He is not applying for financial aid either. However, his school is pushing him to apply ED and they are suggesting ED for most of the seniors. I am thinking this is not such a good thing if he does not have one outstanding "dream" school. School says applying ED is like adding 100 points to his SAT. I would like to see percentages of applicant pool accepted ED at the colleges where he is looking to see if this is true. Is there such a thing?</p>
<p>There’s a huge difference between ED (binding) and EA (non-binding). Surely your son’s HS isn’t pushing for everyone to apply to an ED school? That’s nuts IMHO.</p>
<p>If indeed so, your intuition is correct. NEVER apply to an ED school unless it’s your son’s clear #1 choice. Otherwise use EA and RD options. And stand firm.</p>
<p>What schools’ early accept rates are you inquiring about?</p>
<p>Also know that many schools EA/ED accept rates are very skewed due to large #s of athletic recruits and legacies who are encouraged to apply during that option. To discover if applying ED confers admit advantage requires a case by case analysis and discussion.</p>
<p>If the schools you have interest post a Common Data Set, usually from their institutional research department, section C of the CDS provides the early numbers. (Complicating factor: if the school has 2 ED rounds, the CDS does not discern.)</p>
<p>The College Admissions forum has a sticky on linked CDS’.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the answer is: its depends. Very generally speaking, there is less of an early advantage in the highest end schools, but often an advantage otherwise. After you get familiar with the target schools’ CDS’ assuming they have one and the latest stats from that thread I posted above, I suggest you start searching out ED/EA threads in the target college’s forums. Beware that, again generally speaking, a perceived early advantage may be caused by athletic & diversity recruits preferencially directed to early rounds, wheras the underlying early admit rate for everyone else may be quite similar to RD. Very challenging to tease these things out from available data, hence anecdotal info on school-specific forums may be worth perusing.</p>
<p>Also, an apparent early rate advantage may be caused by self-selection of better qualified students in earlier rounds. Bottom line, the raw rates between early and RD do not tell the whole story.</p>
<p>If a school is saying that applying ED is like adding 100 points to SAT, either the kids are scoring 100 points higher on average or 100 points lower and in the end their SAT scores are equal to RD. I don’t think there’s a real way to find out, and the statement seems somewhat misleading. As always, be very careful how you interpret a schools statistics. There tends to be a lot if smoke and mirrors when stats are just thrown out without understanding them.</p>
<p>If a school is saying that applying ED is like adding 100 points to SAT, either the kids are scoring 100 points higher on average or 100 points lower and in the end their SAT scores are equal to RD. I don’t think there’s a real way to find out, and the statement seems somewhat misleading. As always, be very careful how you interpret a schools statistics. There tends to be a lot if smoke and mirrors when stats are just thrown out without understanding them.</p>
<p>Go to collegeboard.org and look up the college profile. Under the apply tab, it will show the number of students who applied RD/ED along with the number accepted. U can calculate percentage easily</p>