Anonymous wrote:If MIT and Harvard have 5 and 7% acceptance rates now during early action, what kind of rates will they have during RD?!? This is getting insane!!!

MIT generally has a similar RD acceptance rate

But then they wouldn't be able to lock in full pay OOS families, which is really the point of early admittance for so many of these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

That sounds fair.

I wish all state universities would do that - give early action preference to in-state students.

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Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

That sounds fair.

Hopkins had an early acceptance rate of 19%

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Note that the Georgia Tech early action is limited to Georgians only:

https://news.gatech.edu/2020/12/07/georgia-tech-admission-delivers-early-action-1-decisions

Anonymous wrote:I think this is incorrect - wasn't there a thread showing something like 22% of EA applicants were taken at Brown and similar figures at MIT etc?

Then the overall acceptance rate goes down, to these single figures, as usual?

Here is a list with some EA/ED rates for 2025 https://www.collegekickstart.com/blog/item/class-of-2025-early-decision-and-early-action-results

The EA acceptance rate for MIT is so low because they saw something like a 60% increase in apps due to test-optional.

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Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Duke has a 9% acceptance rate. Big advantage there to go ED.

Actually for RD it's more like 6%. And previous years ED rates have been around 20% (it seems to fall every year). But either way, yes, big advantage to go ED if it is your first choice.

I think this is incorrect - wasn't there a thread showing something like 22% of EA applicants were taken at Brown and similar figures at MIT etc?

Then the overall acceptance rate goes down, to these single figures, as usual?

If MIT and Harvard have 5 and 7% acceptance rates now during early action, what kind of rates will they have during RD?!? This is getting insane!!!

Anonymous wrote:For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%

Duke has a 9% acceptance rate. Big advantage there to go ED.

What’s the percent change of those accepted compared to the past 2 years?

I think someone with more than me should rerun numbers to bring more clarity in these times where a large increase in apps are a result of being test optional:
1) % change in rejections to gauge how many apps were overly optimistic
2) % change in deferrals. This might show the AdCom punting marginal apps to RD
3) change the denominator where number deferrals and rejections are normalized.

Point being, super low admit % are being skewed by the volume of apps, many of which may be sub optimal.

I think this would mean more with the number of applicants; the number accepted; the number WL; and the number rejected

For schools that have released info (rounded):

MIT 5%
Harvard 7%
Yale 11%
Johns Hopkins 11%
Georgetown 11%
Penn 15%
Brown 16%
Rice 16%
Duke 17%
Dartmouth 21%
Notre Dame 22%
Emory 31%
UVA 33%
Georgia Tech 38%
BC 41%
Northeastern 53%