<p>ED helps significantly— if Vandy is your #1 and you trust their finaid, you should definitely ED. As Vanderbilt fights to climb rankings, yield is really important, so they take showing interest very seriously.</p>
<p>That being said it’s not easy to quantify how much it helps. The ED acceptance rate is like 33% which is double the regular acceptance rate, but that includes all our recruited athletes and what not. I don’t think Vanderbilt releases any stats about the ED class, and even if they did, it would again be weighed down by athletes and what not.</p>