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Where does applying Early Decision help most?

2.4×

At the typical selective college, ED applicants are admitted at 2.4× the rate of everyone else. At Northeastern University it is 8.8×.

Northeastern University8.8×Dartmouth College5.7×Barnard College5.2×Tulane University5.1×Columbia University4.7×College of the Holy Cross4.0×Middlebury College4.0×Tufts University3.8×University of Pennsylvania3.6×Williams College3.6×Brown University3.5×Northwestern University3.5×Vanderbilt University3.4×Amherst College3.3×Wesleyan University3.1×

ED admit rate ÷ admit rate outside ED, latest Common Data Set. ED pools are often stronger, so not all of the gap is the round itself.