<p>Just curious, are there quotas for ED at Columbia? Would a “not top tier student” be better off applying Ed or regular?</p>
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<p>Apply ED to Columbia if and only if Columbia is your unequivocal first choice (i.e. there is no other college in the world you’d rather attend than Columbia).</p>
<p>your question doesn’t quite make sense - quotas as in do they take a set number of students early? yes - because those students will go to columbia and they want to make sure they have a relatively consistent percentage of early to regular students.</p>
<p>do you mean quotas as in do they take a certain number of people from various academic backgrounds?</p>
<p>as for a “not top tier” student, all depends in what you define as a top tier student and where you see yourself in relation to those students. getting into schools like columbia is hard, even flawless kids get rejected not because they are somehow unqualified, but because the admissions committee can choose to take students from a wide range of backgrounds and interests, they can fall in love with a kids drive that might have lower test scores, or be impressed by someone’s outside achievements and lower grades. so keep that in mind - that if you have passion, interest and desire, you could be admitted to a school like columbia, if that is the case you stand as good a chance as anyone else on this board of that.</p>
<p>What I’m trying to ask is this, I was told that bc only accepts 30% of it’s students from ED. Therefore unless u are a top candidate for bc or a recruited athlete. You should go regular decision. What I wanted to know was if their was anything similar to this at Columbia?</p>
<p>Given that a LOT less people apply to college ED compared to RD, the fact that a class is made up of 30% ED means that ED actually has a HIGHER acceptance rate than RD. For Columbia, I believe the percentage of the freshman class comprised of ED is closer to 45%.</p>