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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.
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 ...
Deadlines vary, with Early Decision or Early Action applications often due in October or November, ... Columbia 1.26 Barnard 1.25 Yale 1.22
There is also a critical information gap that prevents many students from reaping the admissions benefits of early decision programs, even if their family’s financial profile makes them eligible ...
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
High school students with their hearts set on a particular college would do well to employ a time-honored strategy: apply early decision.
Early action (EA) is a type of early admission process offered by some institutions for admission to colleges and universities in the United States.Unlike the regular admissions process, EA usually requires students to submit an application by mid-October or early November of their senior year of high school instead of January 1.
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.