Early action at ND - worth it?

sryrstress
Wed, 28 May 2008 17:04:07 +0000

One other point that has been in several ND threads the last 2 years is how ND treats deferred EA aps when they are reviewed during RD; i.e.-are they reviewed with the entire pool of RD, reviewed at the end of RD, the entire application re-read or just the adcom’s notes, etc?

There were a lot of opinions, but my general take over reading those posts was that perhaps many EA aps would have faired better had they been regular RD aps, rather than deferred EA aps. I don’t have stats to back that up. It was just my gut reaction to many of the posts.

I did specifically ask a ND adcom the admissions rate of deferred EA aps during RD round and his answer was that it was the same as the admission rate of RD aps.

A poster above mentioned the higher admission rate of EA for ND. I do believe them when they say they don’t give any preference for EA. I believe the higher admission rate for EA is the result of 3 things:
a) self selecting pool of aps with very high scores/GPA/etc
b) higher numbers of legacy aps during EA
c) higher numbers of recruited athletes applying EA