The Student Life just published an article stating that Pomona, CMC, Harvey Mudd and Pitzer would not be releasing their ED admission statistics. https://tsl.news/early-decision-data-5cs-withold-do-not-release/?fbclid=IwAR1q5FHZlTdq2oM3i1CwneMF86yO4-zp535QTrQTpmoPrzawR46WnjAH708
I’m unclear on whether this data will ultimately be released in the Common Data Sets.
So those colleges want to hide from regular admission applicants for the same class how much they have relied on ED to fill their freshman class and boost their enrollment statistics for ranking purposes. Hiding the information may just add to the angst of regular admission applicants because they will perceive it is now being hidden because ED admissions are being used to fill an even higher proportion of the freshman class than before. If they really wanted to do away with something that "contributes to unhealthy feelings of angst and pressure, " in the admission process, or want to “move away from supporting things that add stress to the already mysterious and anxiety producing [admission] process,” they would do away with ED.
ED/REA/SCEA results aren’t separately broken out in CDSs, which show applications and acceptances for freshman class by gender. Looks like more schools are following Stanford’s announcement from last August that they will not provide admissions data until the cycle is over (Stanford will report numbers in CDS the following fall).
This quote is ridiculous…the process is mysterious because the schools make it non-transparent, and seemingly with Stanford and some of the 5Cs it’s getting even less transparent.
@Mwfan1921 , section C21 gives ED data and C22 EA data.
Apologies for the bad communication…The reality is that many schools choose not to fill out the ED/EA sections of the CDS (looking at you HYPSM, Georgetown and many more). Further, the CDSs come out so delayed (2018/19 just being posted now), that one has had to use other sources for the admissions data by round…typically student newspapers have this info the quickest.
Hopefully schools would at least report ED/EA/REA/SCEA info prior to the following admissions cycle, which the 5C schools in the article do not routinely do. Unless Stanford starts reporting their REA decisions in the CDS, we will have lost all visibility to their admissions data by round…representing a disturbing move to greater opacity as compared to greater transparency.
Ok, i didn’t realize hyps etc don’t detail it. In the life-beyond-the-ivies universe, all the schools my daughter was seriously interested in had their ED data in the CDS 
Sounds like they are going to release it, just not while RD applicants are waiting to hear back.
I read it the same. But if they are only going to release the information in the CDS, that historically (for the 5Cs) has not been out before deadlines of the next admissions cycle. In some cases for some students, prior year admissions data by round is important to their overall admissions strategy. Of course, it’s less than ideal that an admissions strategy concept even exists.
This year the CDS folks didn’t post the official templates for reporting the data until October 19 (a little later than usual). I believe Pomona posted their initial CDS about 3 weeks later (don’t know about the others). So yes, it was after the ED1 deadline, but of course like many schools, Pomona stresses that one should only apply at that point if it is a student’s “absolute first choice college” and not as some way to game the system (I agree with @Mwfan1921 re: admission strategies).
I don’t remember the TSL doing an Early Decision story last year, but the 5Cs did include their 2018 ED statistics in their latest CDS:
CMC: 193/771, 42% admitted, 60% of overall class
HMC: 88/456, 19% admitted, 38% of class
Pitzer: 135/456, 30% admitted, 49% of class
Pomona: 207/1250, 17% admitted, 50% of class
Scripps: 90/281, 32% admitted, 36% of class
Some of these numbers might be skewed by the colleges’ participation in programs that early-admit students outside of the normal admissions process: CMC and Scripps participate in the Questbridge Match. *Pomona participates in both Questbridge and Posse (which accounted for 37 students last year)
It will be interesting to see if USNWR’s decision to remove acceptance rates as a ranking indicator will affect ED admissions in the future.
My guess is that when they make their RD look-at-how-selective-we-are announcement in the spring, they will include the ED information.
USNWR no longer uses yield or even acceptance rate in their rankings. So ED is not used to game the rankings.
I don’t understand why people get so up in arms about ED and even the release of statistics. Apps are all in so the release or non-release of data isn’t going to change anyone’s chances. ED certainly isn’t for everyone but it is a helpful system for some families.
Helpful for some and detrimental for others - thus the “up in arms”.