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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So… last year, they had 20,000 applicants for their ED1/EA round with a total of 4-5 % acceptance rate (info from admitted students zoom in December, shortly after ED/EA decisions released).

CDS shows they had a total of 40K plus applicants for about 1600 total admits.

Can someone do the math on this on how they are able to have a 40% ED admit rate?[/quote]

The math would be, they have 4,000 ED applicants and 16,000 EA applicants. All 1600 admits are admitted through ED, with zero through EA or RD. The result would be a 40% ED admissions rate, and 0% for EA and RD.

Obviously in reality they admit a handful of kids off the waitlist. I’ve never heard of anyone getting in RD or EA, but maybe that’s just in my neighborhood. If you generously assume 400 students are admitted through non binding rounds, with 1200 admitted through ED, then if there are only 3,000 ED applications (and 17,000 EA) you could still, consistent with the numbers the Dean gave you on the zoom, have a 40% ED admit rate. [/quote]

except... my kid got in EA last year. And while immensely intelligent, did not cure cancer so surely he was not that prodigy standout that would've bucked the odds of zero percent acceptance rate on EA. Also, we are neither full pay nor the token poor kid. Just your regular ol white middle class family that needs some aid but not enough to pad their PELL eligible population.

I am truly fascinated by the amount of mental gymnastics that people would do just to show that the school does.... what exactly? "sHaDY adMissIons PrActiCes" that yields what? The type of students any other school would want in their schools anyway. LOL
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The school can put all of this mental gymnastics to rest by revealing the numbers but they choose not to. [/quote]

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