<p>In The Dartmouth Online this week.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2004111901010&sheadline=early%20decision&sauthor=&stext=[/url]”>http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2004111901010&sheadline=early%20decision&sauthor=&stext=</a></p>
<p>Makes it easier for us, I guess. Just wondering why it dropped so much…</p>
<p>I’m very, very glad to hear that.</p>
<p>ED is no longer as popular as it once was…SCEA is the way to go to attract more early applicants.</p>
<p>There are many reasons for the decline in early decision. First of all, any one with out a definite financial plan should not be applying early decision. With many people losing jobs, the middle class can not afford to blindly commit to $42k /year without having some idea of how all of it is going to pan our… In addition, SCEA allows students to know early as to whether or not they have been accepted with out actually committing to a school, so for some it is the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>Even with the drop in ED, Darmouth will still admit a little over 350 students in this round which means that candidates have a 1 in 4 chance of being admitted . The numbers will most likely fluxuate depending on what type of class they want to bill for 2009. Any who all the best</p>
<p>Yale’s numbers have also dropped</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27458[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27458</a></p>
<p>That’s thanks to the memories of the Yale Massacre of '04. I think that you are going to see that the numbers will even out in RD, anyway.</p>
<p>Hmmm. I hope it’s not too horrible for us RDers</p>
<p>Yale massacre?</p>
<p>Yeah…Yale’s shift to SCEA last year resulted in a 55% increase in early applicants (like the article said), and as Yale isn’t interested in increasing its class size it basically went through and butchered a majority of them. The result is that Yale’s admit rate last year was lower than Harvard’s, which is not usually the case.</p>
<p>wow, that’s insane…</p>
<p>…and by the way, did he say that they’ll admit 1/3 of the early decision applicants?</p>
<p>it seeems like all the ea/ed/scea rates are going down this year in terms of # of applicants</p>
<p>but 9.1% is a lot…</p>
<p>the number will be closer to 1/3 rather than 1/4, sybbie.</p>
<p>stats from collegeboard were as follows:</p>
<p>Early decision
Number of early decision applications received: 1,216
Number admitted under early decision plan: 396 </p>
<p>if the ratio remained the same it would be 33%</p>
<p>I hope that it doesn’t balance out in the RD round! Oh dear. The Dartmouth RD Massacre?</p>
<p>I’m sure it wouldn’t be more competetive in the RD round just because less ppl applied ED.</p>
<p>Well he means to say that a lot of people who might have applied ED before are now getting turned off by the fact that it is binding and so will wait and apply RD. I think that might happen, because that is a natural consequence of nonbinding early plans being so prevalent now. I wouldn’t worry about it right now, though.</p>
<p>The increase in SCEA and EA gives students to find out a whether they have been admitted early, but to commit until may 1 (even though the aid package I believe does not come out until april when they can compare packages. </p>
<p>It’s a big commitment - applying ED and one that is very hard to get out of if money is an issue and you don’t get the money that you need. Applying ED means that you do not get to compare offers. The Ivy league shares their ED list with each other as they are commited to not taking each other’s student. Schools like Columbia specifically state that they will only let you out of your ED commitment only to attend your local city/state university</p>
<p>Yeah…I think that ED is a bad idea in this day and age and that Dartmouth should move to EA or SCEA.</p>
<p>Yeah, next year when I apply, I can’t do ED no matter how much I like the school because financial aid is such a huge issue for my family. So even though I would love to commit to a school, it’s financially unfeasible</p>
<p>I don’t understand… I thought ED schools gave you your financial aid package w/ur ED decision? And if it’s not sufficient you could always appeal, or there’s an escape clause…</p>