Which colleges are most likely to adopt ED0 admissions practice?

[Anonymous]

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these schools do not publish a clean Class of 2029 yield.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.

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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.”

[Anonymous]

Colleges which utilize ED to the extent that more than 50% of the freshman class are ED applicants but who have a very low yield are those most likely to use the tool, whether gimmicky or not.

Emory looks like the prime candidate since it fills more than 50 percent of its class with ED students plus has a very low yield. That tells me that when it goes head to head in the RD with other colleges it loses out more often than not. BU, also.

[Anonymous]

I really wish the top colleges did a version of this (without the summer program) so kids could apply early for their “dream” top college and then if they are rejected still apply to a more realistic school ED1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.”

No one said this is expose, you did. Everyone agrees this is old news except the PP who posted the ranking to show Chicago as number 1.

Chicago does have ED0-4. They ask families to make a binding commitment during three official ED rounds and ask two additional rounds of applicants to switch to blinding commitment.