Early action vs Early Decision

CollegeAngst
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:08:18 +0000

Here are the # of ED applications for the Ivy league for the class of 2020

Brown: 3,030(9.3% of total pool)
Columbia: 3,520 (13% of total pool)
Cornell: 4,882 (10.85% of total pool)
Dartmouth: 1,927 (9.32% of total pool)
Harvard: 6,173 (15.8% of total pool)
Penn: 5,762 (14.8% of total pool)
Princeton: 4,229 (14.4% of total pool)
Yale: 4,662 (14.8% of total pool)

Overall Ivy: 34,185 ED/SCEA apps (12.5% of total pool)

If you remove the SCEA schools, the total ED apps for Ivies was 19,121 (11% of their total pool).

Average early admit rate for Entire Ivy pool was 20%. If you remove the SCEA schools, the average admit rate for ED was around 23%

UChicago got 31,411 apps for the class of 2020. So if it mirrors Brown or Dartmouth it will get around 2,900 ED apps. If it mirrors Cornell, it could get around 3,100 apps. If it mirrors Columbia or Penn it could get 3,800 ED apps.

applying EA for Chicago, just isn’t looking like a good strategy, based on the limited information we have right now.