chance me for stern please

thiswilldo
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:25:15 +0000

Ok about this whole RD/ED which is easier thing. ED/EA (early action - same as ED except it’s not binding) was created to give admissions counselors a break. Because a percentage of students applies ED, there are fewer applications during the RD cycle and the admin people don’t have to read as many applications in that short time. Therefore, as an incentive to get more people to apply early, ED applicants are generally said to be given more slack.

However, because they only have a small percentage of applications, the admin people don’t have a full picture of what the applicant pool will be like and with fewer people to compare, the guidelines for who’s accepted is looser.

Typically, it is easier to get accepted through ED than through RD. However there are (rare) years when this isn’t the case because of that whole class snapshot thing (i.e. the average SAT scores of ED applicants was a lot higher than the average SAT of RD applicants).