Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

Many colleges that are temporarily test-optional are tracking the academic success of their test-optional enrolled students, and that may be why they have not made a permanent decision yet. Duke was transparent in their Early Decision release this year. Waitlists are being utilized more than ever before.

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Well break down trends, compare Early Decision and Regular Decision rates, and take a closer look at transfer and waitlist statistics. Early Decision 5,207 1,174 22.6% The Early Decision acceptance rate is significantly highera trend seen across most elite schools. Overall 50,018 3,801 7.6%

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Whether youre applying through Early Decision, Regular Decision, or considering a transfer, understanding these stats can help you take a more strategic approach. Also, Carnegie Mellon hasn’t released the full breakdown of Early Decision (ED) and Regular Decision (RD) data yet, so a direct comparison isnt possible.

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 3, 2025

In this blog, we break down NYUs acceptance rates, including yield rate, Early and Regular Decision admit rates, transfer, and waitlist acceptance rates. While NYU doesnt always share the exact numbers for Early and Regular Decision, it did reveal that 22,000 students applied through Early Decision this year.

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AdmissionSight

APRIL 27, 2025

It means your application wasnt accepted or rejected in Early Decision (ED) youre simply being reconsidered in the Regular Decision (RD) round. Waitlists, on the other hand, arent active decisions as they just rely on space opening up. So, is it better to be deferred or waitlisted? from the waitlist.

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In this blog, well break down Rice Universitys acceptance rate and key admissions trends, including Regular and Early Admissions, yield, transfer, and waitlist rates. Early Decision 2,886 442 15.3% Class of 2029 stats More recently, Rice dropped its Early Decision results for the Class of 2029.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Yale Acceptance Rate Trends Yale Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Yale Early Action Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into Yale Yale Transfer Acceptance Rate Yale Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is Yale’s Acceptance Rate? That means out of 2,146 admits, 1,554 actually enrolled.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If your explanation is reasonable and helps clarify your actions, the school might reverse its decision and allow you to enroll—with certain conditions, of course. It could help prevent the disciplinary issue from being widely known and potentially blocking your enrollment at other institutions. Sometimes, yes. One smart move?

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Factors to Consider When Committing to a College What to Do if You’re Waitlisted Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways How Do You Commit to a College? Before diving into the technical steps of how to commit to a college, take a moment to reflect on your decision. Submit the enrollment deposit. How Do You Commit to a College?

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Admissions Village

APRIL 22, 2023

What we do know is that colleges always care about managing their enrollment, and the increased number of applications has made it that much more challenging. Colleges might have over-enrolled or under-enrolled last year or for more than one year. Yield is the rate at which a college’s accepted students choose to enroll.

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 6, 2025

Also, look to take advantage of Early Decision schools that are within range. The data shows that wasting an ED application on a far reach or deciding just to apply in Regular Decision will lower your chances of admission. Deferral Strategy: If youre deferred from an Early Action or Early Decision school in December, dont panic.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In this guide, you’ll find everything you need to know about UPenn’s Regular Decision release date, as well as its Early Decision, how Early Decision works differently from Regular Decision, and a few tips to help you handle the wait for results. When Does UPenn RD and ED Decisions Come Out?

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Berkeley² Academy

DECEMBER 20, 2024

You will receive one of the following decisions: Accepted: Congratulations, the college wants you to enroll! Waitlisted: The college doesnt have space within a specific school or major. Consider applying Early Decision II Another option to increase your chances is to apply Early Decision II at a school that offers this plan.

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Northwestern previously admitted about half of its incoming Class of 2027 through Early Decision, and the university’s overall admit rate will stay roughly 7%. This means that Northwestern’s Early Decisions acceptance rate now hovers around 20%. Northwestern’s Fall 2022 ED applicant pool grew by 3.5%

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AdmissionSight

APRIL 14, 2025

University of Florida Acceptance Rate Trends University of Florida Early Action and Regular Decision Policies How to Get Accepted into University of Florida University of Florida Transfer Acceptance Rate University of Florida Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is the University of Floridas Acceptance Rate?

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Early decision and early action applications usually have deadlines in November of your senior year, while most regular decision applications are due between January 1 and March 1. Submit your early decision application if that’s the route you’ve chosen. Get your regular application decisions.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 21, 2023

See Williams’ official announcement below: The College admitted 858 students on March 17 through its regular decision process, according to Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services Liz Creighton ’01. This year, the College received 10,315 applications in the regular decision round, a decline of more than a quarter since last year.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Brown Acceptance Rate Trends Brown Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Brown Early Decision Acceptance Rate How to Get Accepted into Brown Brown Transfer Acceptance Rate Brown Waitlist Acceptance Rate Frequently Asked Questions Takeaways What Is Browns Acceptance Rate? Early Decision 6,244 898 14.4%

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Well also give you tips to help boost your odds, break down important deadlines, and share insights into transfer and waitlist stats. It operates under a Restrictive Early Action (REA) policy. You cant apply EA or Early Decision to other U.S. Admitted students have until May 1 to confirm their enrollment.

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Spark Admissions

JULY 7, 2022

University of Michigan: Finally, one of the biggest surprises of the 2021-2022 application cycle was the steep uptick in rejections, deferrals, and waitlisting from the University of Michigan, particularly for students applying from other states. Harvard, for instance, normally has a “yield rate” of more than 85%.

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CTK College Coach

MAY 12, 2025

Deadlines and Paperwork - Common Mistakes in Applying to College: Early Action and Early Decision - Applying Early Is Where its at Under-resourced students are improving their understanding of the advantage of applying early in the process. Be patient: deferrals and waitlists Oh, the agony of the deferral!

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Tulane’s Gibson Hall Tulane will release Early Decision II (EDII) notifications to first-year applicants on Monday, February 5, at 5:00 p.m. Tulane also prioritized avoided waitlisting students EDII applicants who were deferred in the Early Action round as to not leave them in limbo for a second time.

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The Thoughtful College Search

APRIL 6, 2025

( Originally published in Inside Higher Ed om April 7, 2025) It gets late early out there. We already have early decision and early decision 2, both binding, and early action and restricted early action, not binding. At that rate Bennington would need almost 100 applications to enroll 15 students.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this guide, we’ll unpack the numbers behind Stanford’s acceptance rate, looking at everything from Regular Decision and Early Action stats to transfer and waitlist rates. Stanford Restrictive Early Action policy Stanford’s REA program has a few rules you’ll want to know. Why is it so competitive?

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Amherst receives nearly 14,000 applications for first-year admissions, and about 10% of those are submitted in the Early Decision round. At Amherst there are two potential outcomes for an Early Decision application: acceptance or deferral. This is because Amherst typically does not reject Early Decision applicants.

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Solomon Admissions

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Instead of a cheery acceptance letter or even a denial, however, you find that you’ve been deferred (or waitlisted). Is being deferred better or worse than being waitlisted? What should you do in response to a deferral or a waitlist decision? Deferred vs. Waitlisted What do these decisions mean?

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 4, 2025

Established in 1793, Williams has an enrollment of 2,061 undergraduate students and is considered one of the Little Ivies. Williams early acceptance rate rose this year to 26.6% 18 of the 1,038 students admitted through Regular Decision had previously been deferred during the early decision round.

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CTK College Coach

JUNE 27, 2024

Be patient: deferrals and waitlists Oh, the agony of the deferral! I have walked countless students through deferrals from early action and early decision schools, but when my own child was deferred from his first choice school, it was fairly devastating for him, and therefore for me. They just had to let life play out.

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The Koppelman Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In fact, we’re guessing you recently received a waitlist decision from Boston College and are trying to decide what to do next. First, though, let’s get the ‘lay of the land’ for the BC waitlist. In the spring of 2021 , over 13,000 students received a waitlist decision from BC. Just 13 were eventually admitted —.1%

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Admissions Madness

JULY 9, 2022

Many of these issues come down to Early Decision and Action processes that I discussed in the previous video. Most early applicants are deferred until the regular admissions deadline when their application is considered among all other applicants. Deferral is the enrollment management equivalent of texting “hey, you up?”

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With a network this expansive to support them, it’s no surprise that 94 percent of Boston grads find employment or enroll in a graduate program within six months of earning their degree. How to know if your child should apply to BU early decision or regular decision? ambassadors, and award-winning actors and actresses.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 12, 2024

Early Action deadline of October 15 with a guarantee to receive the admissions decision by January 15. Introduction of a waitlist for the first time in many years. 1, with a guaranteed decision communicated by Feb. A Waitlist Like the essay change, I support this modification.

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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 18, 2024

Those of you who have heard good news from your Early Decision and Early Action schools can start looking forward to your freshman year of college. SENIORS: FINISH THE YEAR STRONG Keep your grades up: Especially for students who have been admitted in the Early Decision round, it’s easy to assume you can take the spring off.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Well dig into trends, compare Early Decision to Regular Decision rates, and explore transfer and waitlist stats. If you look closer, theres a clear divide between Early Decision (ED) and Regular Decision (RD) acceptance rates: Application Type Total Applications Accepted Acceptance Rate Regular Decision 28,107 1,079 3.8%

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

While approximately 78%, of admission offers at Emory are made Regular Decision and roughly 22% of offers are extended to Early Decision applicants, that doesn’t mean an applicant’s statistical odds of getting into Emory Regular Decision are better than getting in Early Decision.

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 26, 2023

Admissions decisions may seem somewhat capricious, but at the same time – at least in my experience – they are far from random: whenever I did the final review of the applications in my admit pile versus my waitlist pile, I could always point to a specific rationale why each applicant ended up where they did.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Through binding Early Decision plans or other layered application deadlines, schools can radically depress their admit count because of the guaranteed enrollment of those admits. Sound like some dark Bayou magic math? Wave if you are following. Still Numerator.

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