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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those recently thru the applications cycle - in retrospect, what do you feel is the best use of a binding early application?  With regular decision acceptances seemingly very low, and so many schools looking to secure early candidates... is it smart to be practical and apply ED to a great school within stats where likelihood of ED acceptance is good, but whose RD acceptance rate is low (and give up hope of going to top choice reach),  or to that top choice reach?  Reach meaning also within stats but a reach for everyone bc of extremely low admission rate (ED rate better). OR student. Decision personal of course but interested in hearing thoughts from you. Thanks![/quote]

Don’t base your “smart” ED strategy on the comparison of the ED and RD rates. The perceived advantage of ED is often an illusion for unhooked applicants. [/quote]

This can’t be repeated often enough. Anyone looking at ED acceptance rates, thinking that these indicate an advantage in applying early are ignoring the fact that almost all athletes are counted with the other admits. Athletes can be 35-40% of a freshman class at a SLAC, wildly skewing the early admit data for what is a small freshman admit group to begin with. Throw in some othe hooked applicants getting the concierge treatment during the early admissions process and it’s easy to see how those numbers can soar.

The bottom line is that acceptance rates at the highly selective SLACs are very misleading overall. Hooked candidates can make up 50% of a freshman class or more. So, if they publish a 10% acceptance rate, cut it in half. It’s really 5% for regular applicants. If they publish 20%, assume 10%. And so on.[/quote]

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