<p>Any school that accepts a substantial % of its class through ED substantially considers interest in the process. ED is the ultimate demonstration of interest. There are schools that have just about the same acceptance rate, for ED and RD, and I would say those do NOT consider demonstrated interest as one of their factors. Though I do believe that Williams doesn’t worry about that as much as many schools that have to so consider it in their non ED group because of so many phantom applications. Williams is high enough on the yield scale that it is not such a concern to them. Still, a demonstrated LACK of interest would not be encouraged.</p>