This year's ED gets harder at certain colleges. It may be due to the change in policy.

[Anonymous]

Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

Most elite universities have been shooting door at least 20 percent Pell grant eligible so nothing new there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...

[Anonymous]

Our suburban public school seems to be doing about as well as it ever has. We have ED and REA admits almost everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...

100% guarantee something braindead will follow these words. You didn't disappoint.

[Anonymous]

At our strong SF private school, it's been a palooza of success for female students at Ivy league - Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn etc. Most are NOT recruited athletes.

It's been tougher for the males at ivies and other tippy top schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take Rice as an example, ED1 round this year they took 30% Questbridge alone, "the largest [Questbridge] cohorts ever from those admission pools". Then there are other hooked applicants. Not so many seats left for unhooked applicants.

I think Cornell may be doing the same. We got zero ED admit this year to Cornell. Unusual.
https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/joy-surprise-and-tears-rice-welcomes-record-early-decision-class-2030-0

Better chance at RD?

What do you mean we?

Our public got quite a few Cornell admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...

Oh BS you don't "hate Trump"

You are as stupid as he is.

DEI means your DD is going to not be admitted to college come 2028.

How stupid can you be coming here and being this dumb?

[Anonymous]

Glad to see the ignorant Trump supporters are out in full force. Have fun at the Kennedy-Trump center surrounded by unvaccinated idiots like yourself. Darwin had a theory. Hopefully his theory will kick in before you losers totally ruin this country.

[Anonymous]

Here is an anecdotal piece noticing the ED rate dropping at Cornell.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1pr0lo0/are_ed_rates_dropping/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Questbridge is not ED. Two separate processes.

Most schools lump them into the ED numbers so they appear as part of the ED results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA ED was harder at our school than year’s past.

Our school's UVA admissions was much easier for the girls and basically non existent for boys.

Usually UVA favors girls, along the lines of 3 girls to 2 boys

This year was more than a half dozen girls and 1 boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...

What are you even talking about? Schools aim for target numbers of football players and target numbers of kids from the DMV and target numbers of cellists and target numbers of kids from congressionally-overrepresented states and target numbers of rural (read: Republican) parts of the country.

What "spirit" are you talking about and is it the spirit of Adam Smith or Milton Friedman and should institutional priorities actually be shaped by the invisible hand of anti-DEI brainwashed mediocrity?

Asking for "these kids" and SMDH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take Rice as an example, ED1 round this year they took 30% Questbridge alone, "the largest [Questbridge] cohorts ever from those admission pools". Then there are other hooked applicants. Not so many seats left for unhooked applicants.

I think Cornell may be doing the same. We got zero ED admit this year to Cornell. Unusual.
https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/joy-surprise-and-tears-rice-welcomes-record-early-decision-class-2030-0

Better chance at RD?

Our school had 6 Cornell ED admits yesterday out of 165 seniors. Two last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rice took 10% of its class in questbridge.

How do these kids tend to stack up academically? I hate Trump but I don't disagree with him that DEI has gotten out of hand. I am all for breaking a tie or even slightly more than that towards kids who have had fewer opportunities. But "aiming for a target number" is not in the spirit of this...

What are you even talking about? Schools aim for target numbers of football players and target numbers of kids from the DMV and target numbers of cellists and target numbers of kids from congressionally-overrepresented states and target numbers of rural (read: Republican) parts of the country.

What "spirit" are you talking about and is it the spirit of Adam Smith or Milton Friedman and should institutional priorities actually be shaped by the invisible hand of anti-DEI brainwashed mediocrity?

Asking for "these kids" and SMDH

Apples and oranges. You need target numbers for sports, music, etc. so you can have a team, orchestra or whatever else. I don't think there should be targets for race, geography, etc. All things being relatively equal, those should be tie breakers. But nothing beyond that. Schools should not be taking a kid several standard deviations below normal just to fulfill these "goals."