Will early decision (ED) give you better chances compared to restrictive early action (REA)?

skieurope
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:33:21 +0000

Asked and answered a million times here.

File it under “it is what it is.” You cannot apply to HYS ED. The acceptance rates for REA are higher, but Harvard has gone on record as saying that they will not accept and applicant REA that they would have rejected RD. Plus when you take the athletic recruits and legacies out of the REA numbers, the acceptance rate drops

So if you’re asking if applying REA to Harvard has the same boost as applying ED to Columbia, then no.