Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op again: what I was really driving at was the overall affect of all of the number of applications submitted including ED and RD. If X Student puts in 1 ED plus 9 RD applications, the Stats Guru seems to massage the data in a way that suggests that Application #1 (presumably the ED application) has Y% chance and each successive Application 2-10 has a diminishing Z% chance of acceptance. The percentages that the Stats Guru comes up with don't appear to follow the published acceptance rates but rather some type of calculation that X Student will get accepted at ANY college. That's what I am trying to figure out.
Stats guru is blowing smoke
The chance of getting into a particular college is not affected by the number of applicants someone submits
ED have higher admits because the pool of applicants is much stronger than regular admits
ED is a gamble if you think you have a shot of getting in it's worth it but realize that if you are deferred ED someone submitting regular decision has a higher chance of getting in than you do because they are a fresh applicant vs having been already deferred which is really a rejection already.
The PP above you is talking about conditional probabilities. A kid who is deferred has a lower probability of getting in than one who never applied early at all simply because the deferral already tells us the school is less interested. .
You have no clue.
ED are not stronger admits than regular - EDs are mostly hooks like athletes, legacies, development kids. Example, Penn legacies are told to apply ED if they want a greater chance to be admitted.
A deferred during ED is not an outright rejection - some kids do get admitted and from our private, multiple kids were deferred during ED and accepted during RD at ivies. Waitlists are a different story.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op again: what I was really driving at was the overall affect of all of the number of applications submitted including ED and RD. If X Student puts in 1 ED plus 9 RD applications, the Stats Guru seems to massage the data in a way that suggests that Application #1 (presumably the ED application) has Y% chance and each successive Application 2-10 has a diminishing Z% chance of acceptance. The percentages that the Stats Guru comes up with don't appear to follow the published acceptance rates but rather some type of calculation that X Student will get accepted at ANY college. That's what I am trying to figure out.
Stats guru is blowing smoke
The chance of getting into a particular college is not affected by the number of applicants someone submits
ED have higher admits because the pool of applicants is much stronger than regular admits
ED is a gamble if you think you have a shot of getting in it's worth it but realize that if you are deferred ED someone submitting regular decision has a higher chance of getting in than you do because they are a fresh applicant vs having been already deferred which is really a rejection already.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Betting everything on one school ED is great, *if* you get in. If you are deferred or denied you have squandered your chance to possibly apply EA (non-binding to several schools instead of one).
Regular decision odds are getting tougher at top 50 schools....
However, every school is different. Looking for a statistical theorem that can be applied equally to all schools is unwise.
Consult the "Common data set" for the schools you are interested in.
Can't you still apply EA to other police but you agree to withdraw those applications if you get in to the ED school?
Yes. You've only squandered your chance to apply ED or SCEA elsewhere.
I thought one can apply ED or SCEA AND public colleges and rolling admissions schools. So my DC applied ED to a private and applied EA to Michigan/GT/ and some other publics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Betting everything on one school ED is great, *if* you get in. If you are deferred or denied you have squandered your chance to possibly apply EA (non-binding to several schools instead of one).
Regular decision odds are getting tougher at top 50 schools....
However, every school is different. Looking for a statistical theorem that can be applied equally to all schools is unwise.
Consult the "Common data set" for the schools you are interested in.
Can't you still apply EA to other police but you agree to withdraw those applications if you get in to the ED school?
Yes. You've only squandered your chance to apply ED or SCEA elsewhere.
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Anonymous wrote:Op again: what I was really driving at was the overall affect of all of the number of applications submitted including ED and RD. If X Student puts in 1 ED plus 9 RD applications, the Stats Guru seems to massage the data in a way that suggests that Application #1 (presumably the ED application) has Y% chance and each successive Application 2-10 has a diminishing Z% chance of acceptance. The percentages that the Stats Guru comes up with don't appear to follow the published acceptance rates but rather some type of calculation that X Student will get accepted at ANY college. That's what I am trying to figure out.