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Early decision (ED) or early acceptance is a type of early admission used in college admissions in the United States for admitting freshmen to undergraduate programs.It is used to indicate to the university or college that the candidate considers that institution to be their top choice through a binding commitment to enroll; in other words, if offered admission under an ED program, and the ...
In this way, it is similar to many colleges' Early Decision (ED) programs. Some colleges offer both ED and EA. Some colleges offer both ED and EA. ED, however, is a binding commitment to enroll; that is, if accepted under ED, the applicant must withdraw all other applications and enroll at that institution.
Regular decision applicants are notified usually in the last two weeks of March, and early decision or early action applicants are notified near the end of December (but early decision II notifications tend to be in February). The notification of the school's decision is either an admit, deny (reject), waitlist, or defer.
“Early decision is widely considered biased in its current form,” said Rubin, but noted that “there is ample room to reform early decision plans, and some schools have made strides to do so.”
For colleges it was a time to tout more record-lows in the ever competitive college admissions derby: Duke announced it had admitted its lowest ever number of early applicants: 16.5 percent.
A college admissions program popular among the country’s most selective universities may actually be skewed against lower-income applicants, college consultants and experts say.
Early decision is a college admission plan in which students apply earlier in the year than usual and receive their results early as well. (It is completely different from “early admission,” which is when a high school student applies to college in 11th grade and starts college without graduating from high school.)
High school students with their hearts set on a particular college would do well to employ a time-honored strategy: apply early decision.