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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS was rejected from a small SLAC in ED despite having a very strong application and high stats. DS now thinks it was a waste to put his ED option into a smaller school. Learn from him and use ED for mid-size or larger unis with thousands of seats for your ED and ED2 rounds. Don't do what we did and use it on a small SLAC that only has a few hundred seats to offer. The odds are against you.[/quote]

Look at the percent that get in, not the number of seats available. THEN you will understand the odds.[/quote]

No. ED admit rate does not give you your true odds.

Two schools. Both schools have ED admit rates of 15%.

School A has 1,000 ED applicants. School B has 2,000 ED applicants. That means that School A has 150 ED seats and School B has 300 ED seats.

Both schools also have 105 recruited athletes who have passed a pre-read and have a 100% chance of admission.

After taking out the athletes,
- School A has 895 other students competing for 45 seats (5% admit rate)
- School B has 1,895 other students competing for 195 seats (10% admit rate)

The overall admit rate at both schools is the same, but the odds of a non-athlete being admitted are twice as high at school B.[/quote]

Convoluted and flawed math. Why assume both schools have 105 recruited athletes when School B is twice as large as A?[/quote]

Teams are pretty much the same size at every school. Did you think that NESCACs play 5-on-5 soccer and 3-on-3 volleyball? That’s not how this works. All else equal, at a smaller school athletes make up a larger percentage of the student body. [/quote]

Larger schools participate in more sports and have more teams but the reality is LACS have a higher percentage of athletes versus larger universities. Lacs typically have 30-35 pct of students as varsity athletes. Ivy League is more like 15-20 pct. It is even more skewed with males who tend to be 40-45 pct of LAC student body but same number of athletes as females. So it is true that athletes take up a lot of ED slots at Lacs (especially after removing dei/first gen candidates) although males probably still have a bit of an edge over females as they try to balance the class as much as possible. The bottom line is that it is hard to get into a SLAC unhooked just as it is hard to get into a t20 national university. Very very qualified applicants get rejected in all rounds from these insanely selective colleges who are to some extent making arbitrary decisions based on very limited slots. [/quote]

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