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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a bit off topic but what happens if a college accepts more students than seats?  I know there must be some type of formula that is used knowing that students apply to numerous school.  Do the colleges accommodate the overflow?[/quote]

Yes they do.  Some schools resort to temp housing, make double rooms triples, hire adjunct faculty, etc.  Some have offered deferred admission (January admission).  This is why they like ED - if they've got 40% of the class set before they turn to the RD pool there is less chance of overfilling or under filling the class.  This is also what the waitlist is for - if you think you might be oversubscribed you might do more WL offers and then backfill as needed.[/quote]So it seems that students who do regular decision have less of a chance of admission.  Are there a certain number of slots held for regular decision?[/quote]

This varies a lot by school - the ED acceptance stats seem to be publicly available.  Some have a lot of ED apps and will go as high as 40%, others end up with reasonably small ED pools.  State schools tend to be EA only and the criteria and usually the acceptance rate will be the same as RD applicants (sometimes actually a little tougher/lower acceptance rate as they will defer to the RD pool).  Ugh - will be glad when this whole process is over.[/quote]

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