Is early action worth it?

vonlost
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:54:52 +0000

“On the other hand, if you’re accepted under early action, they’ve offered you a spot and now they can’t offer that spot to somebody from the RD pool, even if it turns out they like that RD person better than you.”

That’s not how it works; there’s no one-to-one correspondence. Most school offer EA and RD spots to a few times the number of matriculants they want (the “yield” issue). Liking an RD applicant affects other offers made at RD time.