<p>Does anyone know where to find this info, besides looking on college websites , USNEWS stats, and common data sets?</p>
<p>I'm having trouble locating much data on it.</p>
<p>The places that you have listed all have accurate information which have been proved by the schools them selves. You could try the schools newspaper but you will get the same information. What exactly are you looking for?</p>
<p>sorry, I didn't explain that very well!
I have already looked in all the places I mentioned and did NOT find the comparison I was looking for, early action acceptance rates vs regular decision rates for various colleges....
where does one find this?
thx!</p>
<p>IF the information is not there and you have not been able to find it in the schools newpaper, then you will have to do the math. the CDS gives you the following information:</p>
<p>total # of applicants
total # of students admitted</p>
<h1>who applied ED/EA</h1>
<h1>admitted under an early program</h1>
<p>Actually, I just went and looked at the cds for about 8 different EA schools, and there are no actual numbers given in the EA section, it just lists deadlines. The section which gives overall # applied/ admitted/ enrolled states that it INCLUDES early action. There are no separate figures for EA applied/ admitted /enrolled.
After 8 schools I gave up, because the common data set itself does not have a space for this information.
So does anyone have any ideas as to where to dig this up?
thx</p>
<p>Early decision and early action plans are in section C12 of the common data set.</p>
<p>for example:</p>
<p>in 2005 Cornell received 2570 Ed Applications
1067 students were admitted under their ED plan</p>
<p>1067/2570 = ED rate = 41.5%</p>
<p>then go to section C1 for freshman admissions:</p>
<p>6624 total students admitted </p>
<p>1067 (students admitted ED)/6624 = 16.1% of the total class was admitted ED</p>
<p>6624-1067 = 5557 (# of students admitted RD)</p>
<p>total applicants 24,452 </p>
<p>24452- 2570 (ed applications) = 21,882 (total # of applicants in the RD pool)</p>
<p>5557/21882 =25.39% admitted RD</p>
<p>2570/24452 = 10.5% of the total pool applied ED</p>
<p>I next looked up MIT (since their common data set gave no information for early action) Did a google search asking about the early action for class of 2010.</p>
<p>Link to news report came up that states:</p>
<p>12 percent gain early admission to Class of 2010</p>
<p>MIT has accepted 377 or 12 percent of 3,098 applicants for early admission to the Class of 2010, continuing a long-term increase in selectivity while doubling the percentage of underrepresented minority students to 27 percent. </p>
<p>The Class of 2009 has 14 percent underrepresented minority students; the Classes of 2006, 2007 and 2008 have 20 percent. </p>
<p>Most schools will give this information through their school newspapers.</p>
<p>hope this helps.</p>
<p>happy hunting</p>
<p>Wow, awesome post...</p>
<p>I tried that, but for EA still no luck! What search term(s) are you using in Google? I tried, for example "early admission statistics University of Miami"...link to college board has a space for the info, which is blank!</p>
<p>this is maddening</p>
<p>The University of Miami has an ED as well as an EA plan. My guess would simply be that the acceptance rates for EA and RD are about the same and you simply get your decision earlier. If you had any better chances applying EA than RD, then they would not need ED anymore. Hope that makes sense.</p>
<p>correction--I tried "early action statistics University of Miami"</p>
<p>Here's the NY Times article on this. You'll need a subscription. They have a nice data table that shows this info.</p>
<p>or in case that link doesn't work:</p>
<p>that's what I was looking for...can't believe I missed that, I do have the NY times subscription and had read several of the other articles in that section---</p>
<p>the data look pretty reliable, except I don't think Harvard has EA?</p>
<p>thanks again-</p>
<p>hey barium- just testing your hypothesis for U Miami:
according to NYT article
EA 62%
ED 47%
all other 31%</p>
<p>so large differences between EA, EA and RD for this one anyhow</p>
<p>Harvard has scea - single choice early action.</p>
<p>Well, ya, it was just a guess. So I'm still wondering for what reason a college needs EA.</p>
<p>Colleges like EA because it spreads the workload of admissions.</p>