Which colleges are most likely to adopt ED0 admissions practice?

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That’s Northeastern

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

Emory, Purdue, Boston Univ, Lehigh, Rochester all jump out. Very low yields.

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That’s Northeastern

Northeastern's yield for Boston is above 50%. They won't need to do any weird ED 0. If any of the Boston colleges will do it, it will be Boston University.

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I’m surprised that more don’t. Multiple rounds of ED allows a school to harvest a crop of kids who will fit, succeed, and attend. There are only a small number of schools who could pull it off but it makes a lot of sense from the school’s perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

We can all pick and choose which stats we want to follow... Some of us like to look at all the data and not just one metric.
But Emory received 43k apps to WashUs 33k. Emory has closed their waitlist Washu is still open. Seemingly, Emory has better yeild management.

"Emory University Early Acceptance Rate: Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, received a record 3,593 Early Decision I applications to the Class of 2030 and admitted 1,041 students for an early acceptance rate of 29%, according to the Emory Wheel."

WashU ED1&2 AR is 25% higher than Emory's combined ED rate. So whats your point?

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Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

We can all pick and choose which stats we want to follow... Some of us like to look at all the data and not just one metric.
But Emory received 43k apps to WashUs 33k. Emory has closed their waitlist Washu is still open. Seemingly, Emory has better yeild management.

"Emory University Early Acceptance Rate: Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, received a record 3,593 Early Decision I applications to the Class of 2030 and admitted 1,041 students for an early acceptance rate of 29%, according to the Emory Wheel."

WashU ED1&2 AR is 25% higher than Emory's combined ED rate. So whats your point?

NP. Are you saying WashU is 25+24=49%? No way it's gonna be that high. Link? Or you just made it up as usual?

Emory mom, I know Emory's limited prestige/ranking is eating you inside. WashU either rejected your kid, or you view it as a school Emory has the potential to overtake hence the incessant attack. Sigh

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Anonymous wrote:We really really like UChicago’s ED0 round, and don't mind paying for the SSEN program at all. As far as we know, UChicago is the only school that currently offers this type of option. And ED0 has become increasingly popular at our school. That said, UChicago may not be the right fit for every student. Which other colleges are most likely to adopt a similar ED0 admissions process in the near future?

I don't know who are "we". But we hate it. It leaves smaller and smaller chances to students who need to compare financial package.

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Anonymous wrote:Auto incorrect
That’s Northeastern

Northeastern's yield rate without ED0: 54%
with ED0: 88.3% (estimated)

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Anonymous wrote:Washu has no problem getting the students they want. Nah. It’s the desperate schools like Emory that need ED0.

Then why add EA? Why did their app numbers decline? Washu's waitlist is still open, while Emory closed there's.

Last year, WashU's yield rate was 49%, which was significantly higher than Emory's 37% (Atlanta) and 17% (Oxford). These numbers show that Emory is much more of a back up school than WashU (not that WashU isn't).

We can all pick and choose which stats we want to follow... Some of us like to look at all the data and not just one metric.
But Emory received 43k apps to WashUs 33k. Emory has closed their waitlist Washu is still open. Seemingly, Emory has better yeild management.

"Emory University Early Acceptance Rate: Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, received a record 3,593 Early Decision I applications to the Class of 2030 and admitted 1,041 students for an early acceptance rate of 29%, according to the Emory Wheel."

WashU ED1&2 AR is 25% higher than Emory's combined ED rate. So whats your point?

NP. Are you saying WashU is 25+24=49%? No way it's gonna be that high. Link? Or you just made it up as usual?

Emory mom, I know Emory's limited prestige/ranking is eating you inside. WashU either rejected your kid, or you view it as a school Emory has the potential to overtake hence the incessant attack. Sigh

I missed a comma after 25%. Washu ED1+ED2 is 25%. Emory's is 22%.

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Syracuse and Colorado College. Both have enrollment issues. Learn, learn from chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

NP
Is the PP who posted these yield rankings new to college admissions?

Everyone knows the Chicago numbers are fake. That’s like posting Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed 6’3”, 215 pounds stats to “prove” he is the “healthiest president in the best shape ever”.

Chicago manipulated their yield rate to achieve this fake #1 by having ED0, ED1, ED2, making EA applicants switch to ED3, and making RD applicants switch to ED4. They call you all the way until April and May to switch. Fewer than 20% of their total admitted students are from real regular decisions. This means 1) their yield is artificially inflated (by a lot) and 2) many of their admitted students didn’t have the confidence they could get into anywhere else in T15.

If you really believe Chicago’s yield is higher than MIT, Harvard and Stanford’s, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

Emory, Purdue, Boston Univ, Lehigh, Rochester all jump out. Very low yields.

It doesn't make sense to throw a state school in with privates. For very obvious reasons, out-of-state yields are going to be much lower than in-state.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

NP
Is the PP who posted these yield rankings new to college admissions?

Everyone knows the Chicago numbers are fake. That’s like posting Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed 6’3”, 215 pounds stats to “prove” he is the “healthiest president in the best shape ever”.

Chicago manipulated their yield rate to achieve this fake #1 by having ED0, ED1, ED2, making EA applicants switch to ED3, and making RD applicants switch to ED4. They call you all the way until April and May to switch. Fewer than 20% of their total admitted students are from real regular decisions. This means 1) their yield is artificially inflated (by a lot) and 2) many of their admitted students didn’t have the confidence they could get into anywhere else in T15.

If you really believe Chicago’s yield is higher than MIT, Harvard and Stanford’s, I have a bridge to sell you.

Plus they take an absolute ton of middle-of-the-class kids from private schools. The 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 kids who don't have any chance at another top20 school but want prestige none-the-less. Anyone in a top private school can attest to this as Chicago does it every year.

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I don't know who are "we". But we hate it. It leaves smaller and smaller chances to students who need to compare financial package.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking at colleges in US News top 50 (I know that there are thousands of other colleges, but just using this as the dataset for prestige-chasing NOVA tiger mothers):

I would think it would be the lowest-yielding ones, so Rochester, Emory, Boston Univ, Lehigh


2026 U.S. NEWS TOP 50 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES - SORTED BY YIELD RATE
(Yield = enrolled / admitted. Class of 2029 / Fall 2025 unless marked *)

# University USN'26 Yield
-- --------------------------- ------ -----
1 University of Chicago * 6 88.3%
2 MIT 2 86.6%
3 Harvard 3 83.6%
4 Stanford * 4 82.0%
5 Princeton 1 75.4%
6 Brown 13 73.1%
7 Dartmouth 13 70.9%
8 Penn 7 68.8%
9 Yale 4 68.4%
10 Notre Dame 20 64.0%
11 Cornell 12 63.6%
12 Vanderbilt 17 63.1%
13 Columbia 15 61.3%
14 Caltech 11 58.6%
15 Northwestern 7 57.7%
16 Duke 7 57.3%
17 NYU * 32 55.4%
18 Northeastern * 46 53.8%
19 Johns Hopkins 7 51.4%
20 Washington U. 20 49.5%
21 UT Austin 30 49.1%
22 Tufts 36 48.8%
23 UCLA 17 48.0%
24 Carnegie Mellon 20 46.8%
25 Georgetown * 24 46.7%
26 UC Berkeley 15 46.6%
27 Michigan 20 45.7%
28 Georgia Tech 32 45.6%
29 Boston College 36 45.1%
30 Rice 17 42.8%
31 Florida * 30 42.2%
32 USC 28 40.2%
33 UNC-Chapel Hill 26 39.9%
34 Virginia 26 39.5%
35 Georgia 46 38.3%
36 Emory 24 37.3%
37 Boston University 42 35.0%
38 Illinois (UIUC) 36 30.3%
39 Wisconsin-Madison 36 28.2%
40 Lehigh 46 27.4%
41 Washington * 42 26.6%
42 Purdue 46 25.5%
43 Maryland 42 21.7%
44 Rutgers 42 20.5%
45 Ohio State 41 20.5%
46 UC San Diego 29 20.3%
47 UC Irvine 32 18.0%
48 Rochester * 46 15.4%
49 UC Davis 32 14.9%
50 UC Santa Barbara 40 12.1%

* = most recent available figure (Fall 2024 / 2024-25, mainly IPEDS);
these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.
Source: official Common Data Sets / institutional research; U.S. News
2026 Best National Universities ranking.

NP
Is the PP who posted these yield rankings new to college admissions?

Everyone knows the Chicago numbers are fake. That’s like posting Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed 6’3”, 215 pounds stats to “prove” he is the “healthiest president in the best shape ever”.

Chicago manipulated their yield rate to achieve this fake #1 by having ED0, ED1, ED2, making EA applicants switch to ED3, and making RD applicants switch to ED4. They call you all the way until April and May to switch. Fewer than 20% of their total admitted students are from real regular decisions. This means 1) their yield is artificially inflated (by a lot) and 2) many of their admitted students didn’t have the confidence they could get into anywhere else in T15.

If you really believe Chicago’s yield is higher than MIT, Harvard and Stanford’s, I have a bridge to sell you.

This isn’t news to anybody — hilarious how you think that this drivel is some sort of exposé.

A tell that you are unintelligent is the use of the phrases “ED3” and “ED4.”