Chances at Wesleyan University ?, does ED help?

circuitrider
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:43:01 +0000

Well, the raw data suggests that it is helpful. The rate of acceptance for Wesleyan first-year applicants is twice as high in the EDI and EDII rounds as it is for those who are accepted during the RD round. The problem is that it is unlikely uniformly advantageous for hooked and unhooked candidates alike. Examples of hooked candidates would be athletes, legacies, URMs and, to some extent - women STEM majors. So, one has to perform a highly speculative mental calculus in order to ascertain how many unhooked places remain in the ED pool after all the others are eliminated. IMO, your chances are better at Wesleyan than say, Amherst or Pomona, because it has a larger class size (nearly 2x) to fill.