Schools that are way easier to get into early admission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. All those. Chicago and UVA for sure. Tufts too.

False. See the SCHEV stats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be clear, easier does not mean kids with lower stats get in (other than maybe athletes and big wig types). It simply means that if your stats are above 50% range of chosen school, you have slightly better odds of winning that lottery.

Agree but you made a critical exception wrt to the small liberal arts colleges where a quarter of the students are varsity athletes. If your child is not a recruited athlete, he/she does get much of a bump at Amherst, Williams, etc. As a poster said above, though, Middlebury and others (Colby?) are a different story because they take a huge percentage of the incoming class ED. They do it to create a "we love our school" atmosphere and to protect their yield and probably for a lot of other reasons. Tulane has been doing this for years, even taking kids with lower scores early and people have accepted it.

I am nitpicking because a smiple glance at the ED acceptance rate vs the Regular acceptance rate does not tell the whole story, especially at very small schools with a disproportionate percentage of athletes.

[Anonymous]

OP didn’t ask specifically about ED, but continuing in the vein of ED that others have mentioned here’s a list in one place:
https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/early-decision-schools-that-double-admission-odds

For EA, here’s an incomplete list of schools that boost admission (you can google to find more):
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/colleges-where-early-applicants-have-an-edge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're too late.

UChicago, Tulane, Emory, Colby, NYU, BC, BU, Tufts, UMiami, Wake, Northeastern, Wesleyan, UVA pretty much any school which is outside the top 15 or so (plus SLACs Williams and Amherst) (UChicago is probably the strongest school where ED gives such a big advantage).

NYU has ED but not EA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You're too late.

UChicago, Tulane, Emory, Colby, NYU, BC, BU, Tufts, UMiami, Wake, Northeastern, Wesleyan, UVA pretty much any school which is outside the top 15 or so (plus SLACs Williams and Amherst) (UChicago is probably the strongest school where ED gives such a big advantage).

NYU has ED but not EA.

BC same. No EA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If by "easier" you mean "will take a kid with lower stats" the answers here will be misleading.

If your kid is at or above range, then most schools are easier ED. Also simply getting the app in early helps too.

This. Have been reading this forum for years (two DCs currently in college) and have noticed that people seem to think applying ED means that the schools admit kids with lower stats simply because they committed to come and that’s just not true. You still have to prove you are an exceptional candidate (for the top schools) and even then there’s a bit of a dice roll. The bottom line is—If your DC has a clear cut top choice, apply to that school ED and work with your CC to confirm that they are actually good candidates for that school.

Re the SLACs, I can’t speak to whether ED actively HURTS non athletes, but it is true a substantial number of athletes come through via the ED round. Other DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP didn’t ask specifically about ED, but continuing in the vein of ED that others have mentioned here’s a list in one place:
https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/early-decision-schools-that-double-admission-odds

For EA, here’s an incomplete list of schools that boost admission (you can google to find more):
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/colleges-where-early-applicants-have-an-edge

Thanks for the links. I had no idea WashU admits 72% of their class ED.

[Anonymous]

PP said UVA, but I don’t think ED is an advantage at UVA at all. Also, EA looks like it is an advantage over RD, but it also might just be a reflection of the applicant pool. RD students are usually on more of an “upward trend” grade wise and hoping to submit senior grades, so maybe not as strong of a candidate as the EA candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're too late.

UChicago, Tulane, Emory, Colby, NYU, BC, BU, Tufts, UMiami, Wake, Northeastern, Wesleyan, UVA pretty much any school which is outside the top 15 or so (plus SLACs Williams and Amherst) (UChicago is probably the strongest school where ED gives such a big advantage).

I’m pretty sure that Wake does not have a significant ED bump. I remember looking their stats up on their common data set a while back and was surprised. Maybe it has changed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP didn’t ask specifically about ED, but continuing in the vein of ED that others have mentioned here’s a list in one place:
https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/early-decision-schools-that-double-admission-odds

For EA, here’s an incomplete list of schools that boost admission (you can google to find more):
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/colleges-where-early-applicants-have-an-edge

Thanks for the links. I had no idea WashU admits 72% of their class ED.

There are a lot of schools that fill their freshmen class with a majority of ED admits. Emory, Colby, Wesleyan, BC, Northeastern, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins etc.

This is the dirty little open secret as they say, if Yogi Berra were around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP didn’t ask specifically about ED, but continuing in the vein of ED that others have mentioned here’s a list in one place:
https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/early-decision-schools-that-double-admission-odds

For EA, here’s an incomplete list of schools that boost admission (you can google to find more):
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/colleges-where-early-applicants-have-an-edge

Thanks for the links. I had no idea WashU admits 72% of their class ED.

Emory gets picked on a lot when WashU is an easier admit.