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[quote=Anonymous]I just went on a tour and someone asked about ED and whether there is an admissions advantage and what they said was surprising. There isn't any.

ED in-state acceptance rate was 30% last year. EA in-state was 28% last year. The pool of ED applicants was about 4.5K and only 782 in-state students were accepted ED.

Someone mentioned that the only reason to apply ED vs. EA is trying to get what is essentially a demonstrated interest boost by signing the binding contract. But UVA doesn't consider demonstrated interest, and the differences in admission rates are not significant. It might actually be harder to get into ED vs. EA because a lot of recruited athletes apply ED and it is enough to skew the numbers.

Anyways, the benefits of ED simply aren't there beyond a 1.5 month earlier decision. EA will have similar admission criteria, but allow you to see what other schools you got into and what amounts of aid they are offering.

I just don't see the advantage and a bunch of disadvantages of ED for UVA.  Both ED and EA provide admissions advantages over the RD in-state rate of 16%.

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