Why is EDII Acceptance Rate so much lower than EDI's?

GreenwichGarcon
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:20:18 +0000

You are correct. “While about 53 percent of Early Decision I applicants were accepted, NYU only accepted 18 percent of the Early Decision II pool.” http://nyunews.com/news/2011/03/22/22admissions/ (Paragraph 7).

I was one of those 18% last year when I applied EDII. I would absolutely say applied EDII this year, though, because now NYU knows that both EDI and EDII will attract a plethora of talented high school seniors and they probably won’t accept near as many EDI’ers this year, instead balancing EDI and EDII out at about 35%ish, being that the overall acceptance rate is about 29% not including LSP.

Hope this helps! :)