Dartmouth ED vs. UNC Morehead-Cain Scholarship

gellino
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:30:53 +0000

For the '11s, 178 admittees in Early Decision were legacies or athletes, out of 382 total ED admits. So 178 out of 1287 applicants were not legacies or athletes, which comes out to around 13%, which is slightly, but not significantly, higher than RD numbers.



As far as I can tell, you did the calculations wrong in a couple of ways. First, if 178 ED admits were athletes or legacies (and I didn’t see anywhere in that article the mention of number of athletes), then there were 204 other ED admits (not 178). So, if you assume 100% of legacies and athletes applying ED are accepted, then 16.32% of other (382-178)/(1428-178) (non legacy and athletes) ED candidates are accepted (already a higher acceptance rate than the overall rate and ~ 63% higher than the RD rate). If you assume only 50% of ED applicants who are legacy or athletes are accepted, then the ED acceptance rate of non-legacy, non athletes is 19.03% ((382-178)/(1428 -(178/.5)). This is approximately double the RD acceptance rate of ~ 10%, which is still going to include some legacies.