<p>Breaking the 1500 is always good.</p>
<p>Have to somewhat disagree here. Princeton ED is easier, statistically, than some of the RD schools. They take almost 30% ED. Columbia RD is single digits. Wes and Swat are probably about 20 and 27ish overall, which means less RD. I think that Columbia , Dartmouth, and Swat are reaches for everyone RD, Wes would be a reach/match, as would, I think, Chicago. I would think NYU was a match/safety, bordering on just safety. </p>
<p>Other possiblilites for safeties might be Rochester, BU, or GWU.</p>
<p>“Have to somewhat disagree here. Princeton ED is easier, statistically, than some of the RD schools.”</p>
<p>Is it, when you subtract out legacies, development admits, athletes, and URMs? It might be, but I think it is a highly unproven assumption, even statistically.</p>
<p>“Is it, when you subtract out legacies, development admits, athletes, and URMs? It might be, but I think it is a highly unproven assumption, even statistically.”</p>
<p>But they’re present in the RD round, too. I cannot believe that Princeton ED could possibly be harder than Columbia RD, when their ED and RD rates are similar. If Columbia’s RD rate is, like, 5% (I think they’re 11% overall, half taken during ED, but not a math major–it’s low though), and you figure that that 5+% also includes your selected groups, then getting in RD has to be fantastically difficult. (I’d guess the same for Swat, too. ) At least, it has to be considered a major RD reach for everyone, which is the main point I wanted to make for the OP.</p>
<p>Princeton makes a very, very strong pitch to have its legacies, and developmental admits, and athletes apply in the ED round. This helps them tremendously in keeping down the financial aid burden, and allowing a “freer” selection in the RD round. (Penn, by the way, does the same thing, but goes one step further - they say they provide for a legacy preference ONLY ED.) Getting in RD? I think if they released the data, you’d find that it spreads by economic class, with odds for someone in the top 5% being 1 in 3 or 4, those in the bottom 35% about 1 in 7, and those in the middle 35-95% no better than 1 in 20 (and probably worse). For internationals, it’s about 3% give or take.</p>