The Williams Press Release on ED 2006

<p>Just out. Doesn't reveal much but here it is:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases.php?id=1371%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases.php?id=1371&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>i think i asked this before, but has anyone heard numbers on how many people were rejected early? im curious to see what percentage of the deferrees the 15-20 eventually admitted students comprise</p>

<p>Virtually no one is rejected during the early decision round.</p>

<p>Some are. I once found press releases or internal memos for several years that had the total number of applicants, the number deferred, and the number accepted. It wasn't a Stanford-like rejection of about 70% of early applicants but it was clear that some (but not a lot of) early applicants were rejected.</p>

<p>Don't get discouraged. The admissions people will accept some of the deferred applicants. I hope you will be one of them. You seem to want to go to Williams so much and I'm sure you have done a lot to let the admissions staff know that.</p>

<p>Good luck, aube.</p>

<p>it says in the article that men are favored this year and that women were favored last year ED... is this a pattern, like girls one year and guys the next, and then girls again? do i have a better chance for next year being a girl?</p>

<p>Haha, probably not... it most likely kind of random (the gender distribution), and one sex is never ahead of the other by very much...</p>

<p>mikey, i know someone that was rejected with decent stats.</p>