USNews Data on ED/EA Admissions "Bump"

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<p>An interesting ranking on USNews site this week, collating data on early admissions % vs. regular admit rate; total % admitted under ED plans, etc.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/Apply_earlylibartco_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/Apply_earlylibartco_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/webex/Apply_early_natudoc.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/webex/Apply_early_natudoc.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>NB: the devil is sometimes in the details.</p>

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<p>Wow! I was particularly surprised at Swarthmore's and Columbia's ED rates. I had no idea...</p>

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<p>I hadn't seen that before. That's really helpful, I was wondering what my ED school's acceptance rate was. 52%! That's a majority! Woo!</p>

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<p>Swarthmore's ED rate had been 50% for a number years. However, last year, i.e. Class of 2010, Swarthmore had a big jump in the number of applicants and a corresponding decreate in admission rate. The really big drop came came in the ED rate, which decreased to something like 36-37%. Don't know what this year will hold.</p>

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<p>I found encouraging how few institutions seemed to have the sort of policies about which paranoia abounds: It's relatively hard (but not impossible) to find a highly selective college/university that's both admitting a large % of their class ED and simultaneously maintaining a huge difference between ED and RD admit rates. The "worst offenders" seem, maybe understandably, to be in the tier that some students applying to top 25 schools use as safties.</p>