This post is not intended to be exhaustive of all schools Early Decision (ED) and Early Action (EA) policies, but instead to demonstrate that early action and early decision are powerful tools in the admissions process. Note that Bates College acceptance rate below was 21% for regular admission and 69% for ED students.
We would note that we very much encourage students apply EA instead of ED as it is non-binding. For questions on specific colleges’s various ED and EA policies, current clients may contact us here
| Class of 2019 Admissions Statistics (Regular Admissions vs. Early Decision) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution | Applied | Admitted | Rate | Applied (ED) | Admitted (ED) | Rate (ED) | Link | Link (ED) |
| Amherst | 8,566 | 1,006 | 12% | 482 | 172 | 36% | Link | Link |
| Barnard | 6,655 | 1,301 | 20% | Link | ||||
| Bates | 5,636 | 1,208 | 21% | 400 | 276 | 69% | Link | Link |
| Boston College | 29,400 | 8,232 | 28% | Link | ||||
| Boston University | 54,757 | 17,522 | 32% | 1,664 | 741 | 45% | Link | Link |
| Bowdoin | 6,790 | 1,009 | 15% | 666 | 208 | 31% | Link | |
| Brown | 30,397 | 2,580 | 8% | 3,016 | 617 | 20% | Link | Link |
| Claremont McKenna | 7,152 | 698 | 10% | Link | ||||
| Colby | 373 | 188 | 50% | Link | ||||
| William & Mary | 14,950 | 5,000 | 33% | Link | ||||
| Columbia | 36,250 | 2,228 | 6% | Link | ||||
| Cornell | 41,907 | 6,234 | 15% | Link | ||||
| Dartmouth | 20,504 | 2,120 | 10% | 1,859 | 483 | 26% | Link | Link |
| Duke | 31,180 | 3,465 | 11% | 3,180 | 815 | 26% | Link | Link |
| Emory (Emory) | 20,519 | 4,796 | 23% | 1,253 | 478 | 38% | Link | Link |
| Emory (Oxford) | 9,736 | 3,715 | 38% | 453 | 184 | 41% | Link | Link |
| George Washington | 19,780 | 9,000 | 46% | 1,057 | 750 | 71% | Link | Link |
| Georgetown | 19,481 | 3,202 | 16% | 6,840 | 907 | 13% | Link | Link |
| Georgia Tech | 27,250 | 8,521 | 31% | 11,702 | 5,273 | 45% | Link | Link |
| Hamilton | 5,434 | 1,304 | 24% | Link | ||||
| Harvard | 37,305 | 1,990 | 5% | 5,919 | 977 | 17% | Link | Link |
| Harvey Mudd | 4,119 | 523 | 13% | 434 | 74 | 17% | Link | Link |
| Johns Hopkins | 24,717 | 3,065 | 12% | 1,865 | 538 | 29% | Link | Link |
| Kenyon | 7,077 | 1,689 | 24% | Link | ||||
| Macalester | 6,031 | 2,352 | 39% | Link | ||||
| Middlebury | 8,894 | 1,512 | 17% | 667 | 280 | 42% | Link | Link |
| MIT | 18,306 | 1,467 | 8% | 6,519 | 625 | 10% | Link | Link |
| NYU | 60,322 | 18,500 | 31% | 7,749 | 2,500 | 32% | Link | Link |
| Northwestern | 32,124 | 4,187 | 13% | 2,793 | 1,011 | 36% | Link | Link |
| Pitzer | 4,149 | 536 | 13% | 405 | 118 | 29% | Link | Link |
| Pomona | 8,091 | 790 | 10% | 717 | 138 | 19% | Link | Link |
| Princeton | 27,290 | 1,908 | 7% | 3,850 | 767 | 20% | Link | Link |
| Rice | 17,900 | 2,600 | 15% | Link | ||||
| Scripps | 2,613 | 731 | 28% | Link | ||||
| Stanford | 42,487 | 2,144 | 5% | 7,297 | 743 | 10% | Link | Link |
| Swarthmore | 7,817 | 950 | 12% | Link | ||||
| Tufts | 19,064 | 3,000 | 16% | 1,839 | 530 | 29% | Link | Link |
| UNC - Chapel Hill | 17,149 | 6,235 | 36% | Link | ||||
| UChicago | 30,192 | 2,365 | 8% | Link | ||||
| Notre Dame | 18,156 | 3,577 | 20% | 4,700 | 1,400 | 30% | Link | Link |
| UPenn | 37,267 | 3,697 | 10% | 5,489 | 1,316 | 24% | Link | Link |
| USC | 51,800 | 9,050 | 17% | Link | ||||
| Virginia | 30,853 | 8,786 | 28% | 16,092 | 4,856 | 30% | Link | Link |
| Vanderbilt | 31,474 | 3,470 | 11% | Link | ||||
| Vassar | 7,567 | 1,937 | 26% | Link | ||||
| Williams | 6,883 | 1,159 | 17% | 593 | 244 | 41% | Link | Link |
| Yale | 30,237 | 1,963 | 6% | 4,693 | 753 | 16% | Link | Link |