What schools care the most about ED?

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<p>What colleges care the most about ED?</p>

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<p>like they will make exceptions on grades, scores etc. to maintain a high yield</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admissions-statistics/[/url]”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admissions-statistics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>idk if this is what you’re looking for, but this has stats where you can compare the ED and RD rates of top schools</p>

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<p>ya that is perfect thanks asfh, it looks like cornell loves ED lol</p>

<p>Is there anything like this for non ivies?</p>

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<p>You have over a 33% chance of getting into Cornell if you apply ED?</p>

<p>I wonder if the percentage is significantly smaller if you look at just the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>

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<p>many of the top non-ivy schools accept alot of ED apps, mainly because they have tons of kids who have amazing stats and are aiming Ivy but are using the school as a safety</p>

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<p>The numbers are misleading. There are so many variables–do all the athletes come in ED, is the legacy boost on;y good ED, what percentage of the class is accepted ED…The info as presented by Hernandez is useless without the context.</p>

<p>Schools that care most about ED are schools that need to worry about yield and get a certain percentage of full payers in the door early. These are not ivies, top LACs or state flagships. Think second tier privates.</p>

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<p>I do believe that Penn ED provides a slight but substantial admissions boost. For some reason, Penn seems to focus heavily on its yield rate.</p>

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<p>So what schools in particular hmom?</p>

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<p>There are too many to name. Every school charging $50K that is not “red hot” will be struggling this year to have a full, desirable class with many full pay students. We already saw this year that many turned to a strategy of taking a larger percent of the class ED. That is certain to continue. </p>

<p>To throw out a few random names I’m thinking of school like Santa Clara, Beloit, U of the Pacific, Fordham…</p>

<p>Also, I do agree that Penn is the one ivy where there is a small boost ED. This is mainly because they take over half of the class ED (compare to a third at Dartmouth). This doesn’t mean you get in with lower stats, it means they have room to grab a candidate they think other ivies will steal from them RD.</p>

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<p>While Northwestern University is very prestigious, its Early Decision program provides a boost because the school is dedicated to having a student body that really wants to be there.</p>

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<p>cool any other schools come to mind</p>

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<p>At Reed about 50% of ED applicants are admitted, comprising about 30% of the incoming class. About 31% of RD applicants are admitted. Is that a big difference? I dunno.</p>

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<p>Just to correct Hmom5 on one point - Beloit, for example, does not have ED, which is binding. It uses EA, which is early but non -binding. There is a difference as you can only apply to one ED school but multiple EA. (also COA is closer to 40K.) Actually some top LACs, such as Grinnell and Carleton, relied very heavily on ED this year to fill their classes. Obviously an EA school can not fill a class as a safety measure as an ED school can.</p>

<p>OP - though generalizations can be very useful up to a point - do your own homework and familiarize yourself with each particular school’s policy.</p>

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<p>^^ There are schools considerably more tilted toward filling incoming freshman classes with ED applicants. Consider this private university in Lewisburg PA for instance: ED admitted 355 (56%), RA admitted 2304 (25%). Enrolled class was 355 ED and 522 RA. So the bottom line was that ED comprised 8% of the applicants and 40% of enrollees. Does this mean that this particular school “cares more” about ED? I dunno. But I’m certain that ED is important for this school.</p>

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<p>“consider this private university in Lewisburg, PA”…NewHope trying to be politically correct…lol</p>

<p>Anyway, another “private university in Lancaster, PA” has even more astonishing #'s for ED (there’s actually another thread started back in the spring about this)…</p>

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<p>I have a feeling that junior ivy league schools and smaller-medium sized colleges consider Early Decision to be important. Schools like Bucknell, Colgate, Lafayette, Muhlenberg, and Drew are just to name a few colleges that will probably care a lot about Early Decision applicants.</p>

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<p>^^ You’re right. I have no gift at all for political correctness. In this particular case, I’m additionally hampered by my memory of the college rep telling a room of prospies “we don’t give any advantage to those who apply ED.”</p>

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<p>I read above posts. I think ED is good for:

  1. people who have some “hooks”, they are treated as “1st. class” boarding flight.
  2. people don’t care much about FA .
  3. 2nd. tier schools secure top students.</p>

<p>Am I right? anything else?</p>

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<p>I would have to disagree about the financial aid part of your comment, askq. Participating in early decision should not affect how much financial aid you get. I applied early decision, and received financial aid. I know other people who applied early decision and still received close to full rides to their schools.</p>