Yes, I agree. I was just summarizing the change revealed in the article.
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the drop is pretty big, in a short time, no? I wasn’t surprised by the 50%, but that it went from 2/3 to 50% in 1 year.
Not accurate.
Look at post 108 with the applicant/enrollment statistics.
Class of 2029 accepted/enrolled 1,156 through ED and Enrolled 682 through EA/RD.
The idea that a student editor equates that to “roughly half” I can’t speak to. 
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so the article says class of 2026 is 2/3 ED and 2029 is 1/2 ED, not the Class of 28/29, wherein lies confusion, maybe.
it is possible the author (MD of newspaper, so let’s hope not) is wrong.
Sorry - confused - and maybe we’re saying the same thing.
| Class of '26 | Class of '29 | |
|---|---|---|
| ED Accepted/Enrolled | 1,209 | 1,156 |
| EA/RD Accepted | 3,176 | 3,402 |
| EA/RD Enrolled | 818 | 682 |
| EA/RD Enrolled % of Total | 40% | 37% |
Not sure where they’re arriving at “Almost 50%”.
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The article is comparing the class of 2026 to 2029. Not the class of 2028 and 2029
“For the class of 2026, Tulane extended just over 400 regular decision offers, bringing in a record low acceptance rate of only 8.4% overall. In comparison, the university offered around 1,300 early decision spots, making up more than two-thirds of the class.
For Tulane’s class of 2029, the university extended around 1,100 regular decision offers — a massive jump from 403 offers three years prior — as well as about 2,300 early action admission offers. But Tulane still offered about 1,100 students early decision spots, which amounts to about half of the class of 2029’s enrollment. “
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The author is mixing apples and oranges with the EA and RD numbers.
That too!!
Kent and Levy’s ED/RD acceptance rates for those 2 classes may be helpful:
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So, from class of 2026 to class of 2029, the enrolled class size reduced by 9%, and while fewer were accepted ED for class of 2029 than for class of 2026, the portion of the enrolled class accepted ED actually increased by two percent for class of 2029, to 62%. The opposite of what I was trying to summarize from the article above (sorry!).
Looks like Tulane also experienced a drop in EA/RD yield, from close to 26% for class of 2026 to 20% for class of 2029. (Perhaps the increase in share of the class ED was accidental.)
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Specific to Tulane…does anyone know the difference in acceptance rate from ED to EA? Seems like EA is getting lumped into RD here, unless I’ve misinterpreted.
The only recent CDS that lists out anything that would allow us to impute anything was for the freshman class of 2023. It gave specific ED and EA numbers which kinda-sorta allows you to calculate the RD numbers. I say kinda-sorta because someone could have applied EA and been deferred to RD and for the purposes below, not sure how the school might categorize that application. And if you take the total enroll and deduct the ED/EA numbers you get a negative 23 for RD. Clearly 100% ED acceptances don’t enroll, etc etc…
| Incoming Fall 2023 Class | |
|---|---|
| Total Applied | 27,936 |
| Total Admitted | 4,077 |
| Total Enrolled | 1,867 |
| Early Decision Applicants | 1,752 |
| Early Decision Acceptances | 1,193 |
| % Accepted/Enrolled | 68% |
| Early Action Applicants | 15,541 |
| Early Action Admitted | 2,614 |
| Early Action Enrolled | 697 |
| % Admitted | 17% |
| Calculated | |
| RD Applicants | 10,643 |
| RD Admitted | 270 |
| % Admitted | 2.5% |
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Does your school have something like naviance, Maia, scoir? Ours shows that the number admitted ED and EA is exactly the same (!), and just about no-one admitted RD. So these numbers are not the same as the overall numbers @Mashinations posted, though those do also show a significant advantage of EA over RD. Our counselors specifically called out Tulane in a presentation earlier this year and said almost the entire class gets admitted early - both ED and EA - as one of the schools they urged people to get apps in for if they were interested. Note that they were not pressuring anyone into applying ED, just to get that in early. (There is pressure from Tulane though - when D19 applied there EA Tulane emailed and called a few times to try get her to change it to ED..)
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