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[quote=Anonymous][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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ED is less of a boost than it was a few yrs ago. Naviance used to show a huge difference in stats. They worked to shift that this last cycle, however the borderline stats kids from the local privates got in ED but did not EA. The pools of applicants are different. It is rare anyone from the top dozen kids do ED —they usually aim for ivy/T10 and use Uva EA as a backup (and get in). So the ED pool does not have the majority of the top kids. DeanJ has said this before: EA is the most competitive pool. Therefore the rate itself is not comparing apples to apples. However—the gpa/rigor that got students IN ED in 22 and 23 got waitlisted this past cycle. Those stats were never good enough for EA so the gap has narrowed and the boost in ED is far less. [/quote]

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