Is there a list of college which only accept, deny or wait list after the ED round? I know that Vandy is one. Or if you know of any, please add to the list. Much appreciated!!
UVa defers large numbers of their (non-binding) early action applicants, and admits many of those deferrals in the regular admissions round. A main factor becomes how well the deferred student did in their grades during the middle of their senior year.
The same thing then happens during the second year of college for applicants to UVa’s Commerce School - the most qualified are admitted in the first round, and others are deferred and have to wait for a second round, which considers their later grades.
Georgetown defers everyone they don’t accept EA. They don’t deny anyone early. Personally, I think that’s weird, but it means if you get a deferral you don’t get your hopes up.
It is commonly said on these forums that Stanford defers relatively few from REA (i.e. most get either admitted or rejected). If this is the case, then deferral from Stanford REA really indicates that you are a borderline applicant with some chance, while rejection means that you can move on (rather than getting a false hope for RD) since you are not even close.
Northwestern defers very few from ED and have made it clear in the past that it is to see ongoing academic accomplishments, i.e. grades. If you get deferred from NU, you still have a shot of getting admitted RD.
Stanford believes in making final decisions as much as possible when they review REA applications. So they generally take about 10%, defer about 10%, and reject about 80% of REA applicants.
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/24/early-programs-not-created-equal/
I believe Cornell, Arts and Sciences rarely defers.
Few if any schools waitlist EA or ED applicants.
^Do you mean defer and then waitlist in April? Or waitlist right away? I don’t know of any that waitlist right away.
OP, in the ED round, there is: accept, deny, or defer to RD. To my knowledge, there isn’t a waitlist on ED round. Maybe you intended “waitlist” to mean “deferred”?
UChicago defers many applicants from EA to RD.
@TiggyB62 - I meant it exactly as written. I’m looking for schools that give a final judgement during ED with no deferral to RD.
@GossamerWings In that case, there are no such schools. You may have to settle for being deferred.
" I’m looking for schools that give a final judgement during ED with no deferral to RD. " Why? If Stanford honestly thinks that they do not wish to reject your app but there might be enough to admit once the RD apps are read, how does that harm you? If deferred or rejected, you go to your larger fallback list anyway. Is the emotional link of a “maybe” that difficult to let stand for four months?
Like others have said, most schools keep this procedural option, you’re gonna have to accept this or eschew EA/ED altogether (which is perfectly acceptable too!)
Cornell Arts and Sciences. If you apply ED, I believe that typically the applicant is either accepted or rejected.
What is Cornell’s CAS acceptance rate, does anyone know? I suspect it’s lower than the 14.2% reported by USN which is probably the average across all its colleges, some of which are land grant and give preference to NY state residents.
@cmsjmt CAS at Cornell acceptance rate is around 14%. 18,027 applicants/2,664 acceptances for 2015 Fall