are colleges with high ED acceptance rate good academically?

[Anonymous]

Many T25 schools (especially some Ivies) deferred over 50% of their EA/ED to RD. So then they have an almost guarantee that if they select these kids in RD they will attend. So yield management is easy and yield is Higher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What you should be looking at is the percentage of the freshmen class that is taken early decision. This is what really skews the overall acceptance rates. That will show if the EA or RD rounds are all for show:

Percent of class taken EDI and/or EDII:

Barnard: 60% taken ED
Colby: 50% taken ED
Middlebury: 70% taken ED
Vanderbilt: 50% taken ED
Dartmouth:50% taken ED
Williams:46% taken ED
Brown: 50% taken ED
Duke: 46% taken ED
Wesleyan: 59%
Wash. U: 74%
BU: 57%
Emory: 68%
Johns Hopkins: 62%
Rice: 44%
BC: 58%
Pomona: 52%

Last year, NEU only took 34% ED

UChicago would be at the top of the list at probably 90%+ of the class taken from ED1&2. But they refuse to disclose the stats. Wonder why?!!!! lol. They game the system to the hilt to appear more selective and prestigious.

[Anonymous]

Washu does NOT take 74% of their class ED

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago has a notoriously high percent of the class admitted via ED but still has a 790 average math SAT. Not sure ED rate aligns to quality of admitted students, at least vis a vis the usual metrics. Agree that there is a lot wrong with ED but I’m not sure it is the way to get a sense of quality of either the institution or the student body.

All T25 schools could have the test score stats of UChicago IF they took 90%+ of their class in ED. But they aren’t as shady as Chicago. Some are getting close but if Chicago had nothing to hide, they would disclose their numbers (% of class taken ED)

[Anonymous]

Look at the profile of the students admitted ED vs RD--if they are roughly equivalent, the school is as good academically as one that has a different percentage of ED/RD. Acceptance rate tells you more about the school's popularity than the quality of the academics/students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Washu does NOT take 74% of their class ED

Correct. It’s around 60% (1100 out of 1800). https://wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wustl-cds-2022-2023.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Washu does NOT take 74% of their class ED

Correct. It’s around 60% (1100 out of 1800). https://wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wustl-cds-2022-2023.pdf

Wow. Still very high.

[Anonymous]

I think the bad-mouthing of NEU might come to an end. I had no idea they took so few in early decision, relatively speaking. Maybe the scarcity of spots makes that school extemely selective, not marketing voodoo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the bad-mouthing of NEU might come to an end. I had no idea they took so few in early decision, relatively speaking. Maybe the scarcity of spots makes that school extemely selective, not marketing voodoo.

Haters will be haters.
People choose NEU for the outcomes and results combined with actual campus in a great city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT does not have ED.

My DS really liked CMU and applied ED to it for CS. ED was just to improve his chance. Then we realized that CMU costs 90K a year and I prayed hard that he would not get in there. He didn't. Thank God.

haha, this sounds like something I would have done. Glad it worked out for your family, whew!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What you should be looking at is the percentage of the freshmen class that is taken early decision. This is what really skews the overall acceptance rates. That will show if the EA or RD rounds are all for show:

Percent of class taken EDI and/or EDII:

Barnard: 60% taken ED
Colby: 50% taken ED
Middlebury: 70% taken ED
Vanderbilt: 50% taken ED
Dartmouth:50% taken ED
Williams:46% taken ED
Brown: 50% taken ED
Duke: 46% taken ED
Wesleyan: 59%
Wash. U: 74%
BU: 57%
Emory: 68%
Johns Hopkins: 62%
Rice: 44%
BC: 58%
Pomona: 52%

Last year, NEU only took 34% ED

UChicago would be at the top of the list at probably 90%+ of the class taken from ED1&2. But they refuse to disclose the stats. Wonder why?!!!! lol. They game the system to the hilt to appear more selective and prestigious.

Source for fact that 90% of UChicago's freshmen class is taken ED? Even if that is true, it is highly prestigious. Look at the average SAT scores, outcomes, med school admissions, law school admissions. It is one of the top colleges in the world, not just the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Middlebury's ED acceptance rate is 39%.
Wesleyan's ED acceptance rate is 41%
Barnard's ED acceptance rate is 25%
WashU's ED acceptance rate is 26%
BU's ED acceptance rate is 27%
BC's ED acceptance rate is 30%
Williams' ED acceptance rate is 27%

The list goes on and on and on.

athletes as a percentage of class composition.
Wesleyan 24%
Barnard --
WashU 8%
BU 3%
BC 5%
Williams 39%

I think you can sus out ED is most helpful for non-athletes at WashU, Barnard, BU, BC .. not so much Wesleyan or Williams

This is case by case stuff

Did BU release ED2 result for class of 2028?

[Anonymous]

College admission nowadays is all about money, connections and lies. Honest, bright MC kids with no ties are at grave disadvantage. On the other hand, top colleges are also deteriorating in academics and rankings are severely skewed toward legacy, URM etc., so smart parents and students will try to find the right colleges that fit their needs.

[Anonymous]

*meet their needs.

[Anonymous]

I did not know that Bucknell's ED acceptance rate is 63%. BU's ED1 acceptance rate was 34%. BC's ED1 rate was 34%, its ED2 rate was 28%. NEU's EDII rate was 20%. It looks like recruited athlete admits skews the number?