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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED's main benefit is to colleges. It takes choices away from students.[/quote]

It's mutually beneficial. Students get a leg up by applying ED, sometimes a significant one. It's up to them and their parents to weigh the pros and cons. Also, it is not difficult to get out of ED for financial reasons.[/quote]

No much of “leg up” at top schools.  One has to move down the chain to get some ED advantage.  [/quote]

ED has a distinct advantage at:

Northwestern
Brown
JHU
UChicago
Columbia 
Dartmouth 
Michigan
Rice
Vanderbilt 
Emory
WashU
UVA
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And for some SLACs, like Middlebury and Colby.[/quote]

We really don’t know about Colby because they haven’t released a CDS in years. For Middlebury there used to be a slight advantage but it has been narrowing. For many of the schools mentioned the perceived advantage probably doesn’t exist and can be explained by differences in the quality of the applicant pools for ED vs RD.[/quote]

Gmab. Those two are notorious for admitting a very large percentage of the class ED. 70% of Middlebury's freshman class was admitted ED two years ago. Colby won't publish those stats because they are embarrassingly high. But they are far from the only ones that admit 50%+ of their classes ED.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1ggxd55/schools_with_the_biggest_and_smallest_relative_ed/[/quote]

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