ED effect on admission chances

Strick11
Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:30:24 +0000

I know ED was a significant advantage to my S when he was accepted to SCS a few years back. The disadvantage was that he had second thoughts after being attending CMU and we had a bit of a rough time while he was deciding what he was going to do.

The common dataset, which lists the different admission statistics for the university, gives enough data for you to calculate what you need to make a comparison. You can google it at their website.

Surprisingly, the quick calculation I did shows that they accepted roughly 23% of ED applicants versus 28% of total applicants. If that’s right, ED applicants were at a slight disadvantage at CMU last year.