what is the percent of acceptances with early decision?

Question

Please cite your source

Answer 1

this varies by school....u gotta be more specific. and my source is myself, having worked in an institutional effectiveness company that pulls such data.

Answer 2

Of course this varies by college. Most schools post on their websites the number of applicants they have, how many applied early decision, how many of those were accepted, and how many of the regular app were accepted.

Most of the elite schools have classes of roughly 1200 - 1800 students. In some cases about 1/4 to 1/3 of the students are accepted ED. You could check the website at Duke University for an example of how this works at an elite school.

As you may know, Harvard recently announced that it was going to stop using ED. And a couple other schools have followed their example.