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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges like Harvard, MIT, Yale, etc have more or less the same ED vs. overall acceptance rates, mostly below 9%.  But colleges like Amherst,  Emory, Northeastern have a 30% acceptance but claim below 9% overall acceptance.  Are these colleges artificially manufacturing these low overall acceptance rate but quietly admitting full tuition kids irrespective of their academic merits?  In general, if a college has a huge imbalance in ED vs. overall acceptance rates, [b]can they be trusted to offer rigorous academic programs and attract academically committed students[/b]? [/quote]

Yes. These schools have way more qualified applicants than slots. Whether they are admitting a disproportionate amount of those qualified applicants in ED has no relationship to how rigorous they are. In fact, considering that ED students make up nearly half of all students in the incoming class at some of these schools, they would pull down the CDS stats if they were less qualified.

There’s a lot wrong with ED, but there’s nothing to support the idea that popular schools are using it to sneak in unqualified students.[/quote]

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