<p>@soozievt – unfortunately all bets are off this year versus last year’s stats, as applications are up at Northwestern over 25% in ED and a similar amount in RD versus last year. They have already formally announced that at most 19% of applicants will be accepted this year versus 26% last year.</p>
<p>This year NU accepted ~700 students ED, the most they have ever accepted, so less than 35% of the freshman class is admitted ED, and only ~34% of ED applicants are accepted (not 50%) – but that is misleading as it includes recruited athletes.</p>
<p>Also, ED stats can be skewed lower because recruited athletes are included in the ED pool. In general, schools say the non-recruited-athlete ED stats are roughly the same as RD stats.</p>
<p>Here’s an article that talks about some of this…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/11/early-decision-applications.html[/url]”>http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/11/early-decision-applications.html</a></p>