Colleges where applying RD may not be worth the bother

smiles2122
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:56:40 +0000

It will become more clear when we see all of the Ivy numbers but there was an extra EA boost to all the non-Princeton Ivies last year (and some other selective schools, likely) because Princeton didn’t have an EA round last year. Yale was down 8% this year, presumably due to Princeton bringing back EA this year - and the Columbia numbers were probably impacted for that reason, too.

What will be telling regarding these trends we are discussing will be whether these schools are increasing the percentage of ED student in their total incoming class like it appears Barnard did.

Re Barnard meeting need - which most highly selective schools say they do nowadays - there can be still situations where students still can’t accept the ED offer due to disagreements on what their EFC really is. Students are supposed to run the NPC first but I still think there can be discrepancies - @Mwfan1921 has seen this first hand, I believe.

On your last comment, I heard something last year about how AOs had JUST gotten their yield projections honed in enough to be useful, per your point…and then Covid and TO happened. They will hone it again, I am sure, but they need more data again to get it re-honed back in with TO and other schools changing their TO, etc (like the Princeton thing!). Hard job!