Hi, so I was wondering what are the schools that boost the chances for ED and EA the most?
The schools I want to apply either EA (all - if they offer it) are: Northeastern, Tufts, Cornell, NYU
ED options are same as the list above, but I’m conflicted on which school will up my chances more (I like all those schools and I will be okay with going to any of them). So basically my question is which school is the easiest to get accepted into out of those listed above with ED and EA? Also what are other schools not mentioned that offer a great boost in ED or EA?
I wanted to do NYU ED, but people have been telling me that I shouldn’t and I don’t understand why?
I want to major something in STEM so premed. I’m also confused and conflicted what to major in because people have been telling me it is not the best idea to major in Biology for med school because if I do not get into med school, then there are really no other options for me to do.
Also, if I do undecided does that also boost my chances (specifically for NYU because my cousin and my friend both got deferred then accepted to NYU from undecided and in the college of arts and sciences)?
Someone suggested to me that I should apply ED to two places. They said if I got into both that I could just face the consequences of one of the college and all that would happen is that I would have a bad relationship with the other university. Is that true? What are the consequences??
You can only have an ED application to one school at a time.
If you choose to do ED, it should be to a school where you would have no regrets committing to attend without comparing admission, financial aid, and scholarship offers with other schools. Unless your family is willing to pay list price for that school, you need to use its net price calculator before applying – it is a waste to apply ED to a school that will be unaffordable.
Pre-med students should consider cost carefully, since medical school is expensive, and you do not want the cost of undergraduate to result in a much larger amount of debt at the end of medical school, heavily limiting your career and life choices.
When you apply ED, you, your parents, and your counselor sign a form which has a few stipulations. One of those are that you are not applying to another school ED. Doing so would be dishonest. Also, I doubt your counselor would let you do it since it can really damage your high school’s reputation and ruin it for students for years to come.
You can be rescinded for applying to two schools in binding ED.
You can however apply to one binding ED school and then others non binding early action but you are committing to the ED school if you are accepted.
I think why people say not to bother using your ED at NYU is because it doesn’t offer much of a boost in acceptance rate. Cornell has a significantly higher acceptance rate for ED applicants (albeit still highly competitive).
You cannot apply binding ED to more than one school. Besides being logistically impossible (your HS won’t send your transcripts and recommendations to two schools for ED), it’s fraud.
Of the schools you listed, only Northeastern offers Early Action and Early Decision. The others only offer ED.
You should assume that it is not a question of if a college will discover the fraud, but when. So what are the consequences? Let’s see. The application could be outright rejected. If discovered after acceptance, the acceptance can be rescinded. If discovered after matriculation, the student may be told to withdraw. If discovered after graduation, the diploma may be revoked. All in all, it’s just not worth it.
But really, the question is moot. No GC worth his/her salt will submit a GC rec and transcripts to multiple schools for ED.
If you need ED to have a good chance of getting into a school, it might not be the place to be pre-med. You need excellent grades for med school, do consider schools where your stats are strong. You also may be able to get merit aid, saving money for med school.
Does your school have Naviance? You can use that o see if there is a boost for ED for the colleges you mentioned. In my kids’ high school, ED to NYU was 63% acceptance vs. 38% for RD. I think the ED pools for these schools are quite competitive for unhooked students (at least at our local high school), so if you are thinking of ED due to lower stats, that may not quite work anymore.
“You can however apply to one binding ED school and then others non binding early action but you are committing to the ED school if you are accepted.”
This is incorrect. If you apply to an Early Action Unrestricted school like Georgetown and also apply to an Early Decision school like Penn, you are NOT violating Georgetown’s rules, but you are violating Penn’s rules.
Here is what we were told about the ED bump at two well respected DIII schools. Not too sure if it is the same everywhere, but consider these two schools the very top of the pecking order in DIII. One in the New England area and one in the Great Lakes region.
ED acceptance percentages are higher because this is where hooked applicants apply to show that they are committed to the university. For example, if you are a recruited athlete for either school, you will most likely get accepted in the ED rounds. For the college coach at these schools, this is basically the same as a Letter of Commitment. You as the student inform the coach that you will apply ED, the coach then works with the admissions department to get a pre-read on your acceptability, and in some cases the student is issued a Likely Letter. I’m fairly certain that the other hooks are also encouraged to apply ED.
The AD (not AO’s) at these two single digit acceptance rate college/university both stated that this is the major admissions bump that is received during the ED rounds.
Take it for what it is worth, but that is first source information for me, and now 2nd for you.
As far as consequences, I don’t think the Common App will let you apply ED to two schools, your GC won’t send in transcripts/Reco Letters/School Reports for two schools so I’m fairly certain that you’d never get to consequences. A word of advice on life, you shouldn’t break the rules because the consequences are light. You should strive to be a person who doesn’t purposefully go against the rules for your own personal gain. That character flaw will hurt you in life and is not the way to begin your professional career.
Actually, the assertions about Penn and Georgetown are both wrong… Although the confusion about Penn is understandable because they changed it to restrict it, then reversed. The current policy:
That said, let’s not get caught up in the minutiae, especially since the OP did not mention Penn or Georgetown, However, it brings up a point to reinforce: the OP should understand the early applications policies for his/her target schools and make the decision which school(s) to apply to early while ensuring that s/he is not violating the ED/EA agreement with said school.