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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED should be outlawed. It’s only purpose is to increase yield for better schools that are not most elite. I got into Harvard mommy, but I am stuck attending UVA! [/quote]

A).  you would not “get into Harvard” if you got into UVA ED.  You would have to pull your Harvard app before then.  Harvard’s acceptance rate is <5%, so no one  (even 4.0 UW, 1600) can credibly say “I am sure I would’ve gotten into Harvard if hadn’t done UVA ED”
B) Why pick on UVA?  Last I checked, it filled about 19% of its class ED.  By way of comparison, here are some other highly regarded schools that seem to be leaning on ED to boost yields far more than UVA does. (% are % of class filled thru ED)
Columbia  50%
Cornell 49%
Brown 46%
Penn 54%
Dartmouth 51%
Hopkins 53%
Duke 53%
Emory 60%
Northwestern 58%
WUSTL 60%
Vanderbilt 51%
Swarthmore 63%
Middlebury 65%
Wesleyan U 64%
Bates 81% (!!!)
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And many of those you listed Defer a high percentage of ED applicants (most of the Ivies especially).  This means they have a large pool of students in their RD pool that they can almost guarantee will accept, providing them a high yield.  So they fill over 50% with ED, then have a known pool of "ready to commit students" to select from for RD.  I suspect many fill another 25%+ of their freshman class from ED deferrals.

I know NU is an exception to this---data not officially published by NU but they typically only defer 1-2% (no clue how many eventually get accepted). 
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