Am I being realistic?

ArtsyKidDad
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:58:16 +0000

sgopal2:

You’ve picked upon the point I was trying to make about ED. Its your best chance for getting in. The ED acceptance rates are typically 5-10x higher than for the RD rounds. .

@sgopal2 This, coming from a very experienced poster, puzzles me a great deal.
Admission officers at top school go to a great length at information sessions to debunk it, as do many posters here.
ED is when recruited athletes and legacies get admitted, right? And OP is neither. When you subtract these two cohorts, the ED admission rate is usually barely above RD for places like UPenn. If you can give any examples of places when these rates are indeed significantly higher, after accounting for these factors, please post them.