Huge disadvantage doing RD instead of EA?

scottj
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:29:26 +0000

Dear LilWayneFan and metfan2121 : Earlier in December, I remember doing these calculations based on some preliminary numbers that were circulated. We estimated that the acceptance from the EA pool was about 32% (2200/7000) and from the RD pool about 18.5% (5000/(23000+4000 deferred)). Overall, that comes to about 7200 acceptances from 30000 applications for an acceptance rate of 24%. The yield for 2250 from the acceptance pool of 7200 was about 31.25%. Do these numbers sound reasonable?