ED比RD申请优势明显的学校

大多同学申请Early Decision是为了提高被梦校录取的几率。仅从录取率来看，ED申请下表这些学校确实比RD有胜算。下表列出了学校的ED录取率（第3列）、RD录取率（第4列），ED录取率是RD录取率的几倍（第2列）、ED录取的人数占招生总数的比（第5列）。以西北大学Northwestern University为例，该校RD录取率为8%，ED录取率高达35%，ED录取率是ED录取率的4.38倍。通过ED录取的人数占新生总数的55%，也就是说一大半学生是通过提前录取进去的。

School	ED/RD Advantage	Admit % (ED)	Admit % (RD)	ED/Enrolled %
Northwestern University	4.38	35	8	55
Sewanee: The University of the South	4.17	75	18	30
American University	3.87	89	23	39
Bates College	3.83	69	18	53
Columbia University	3.80	19	5	45
Colorado College	3.44	31	9	51
Amherst College	3.33	40	12	38
University of Pennsylvania	3.29	23	7	55
Swarthmore College	3.27	36	11	50
Trinity University	3.04	76	25	9
Davidson College	3.00	48	16	59
Claremont McKenna College	3.00	27	9	54
Dartmouth College	2.89	26	9	44
Williams College	2.80	42	15	45
Brown University	2.75	22	8	40
Johns Hopkins University	2.73	30	11	45
Vanderbilt University	2.67	24	9	50
Duke University	2.67	24	9	48
Tufts University	2.67	32	12	49
Kenyon College	2.63	63	24	51
Middlebury College	2.63	42	16	58
Pitzer College	2.55	28	11	44
Barnard College	2.53	43	17	51
Wesleyan University	2.44	39	16	47
Pomona College	2.38	19	8	44
Washington University at St. Louis	2.31	37	16	36
Bucknell University	2.30	53	23	47
Grinnell College	2.30	53	23	38
Cornell University	2.25	27	12	41
Bard College	2.23	58	26	9
Trinity College	2.23	69	31	50
College of the Holy Cross	2.21	75	34	45
Scripps College	2.09	48	23	41
Haverford College	2.09	46	22	43
Saint Olaf College	2.09	73	35	24
Lehigh University	2.07	58	28	46
Colby College	2.05	43	21	49
Franklin and Marshall	2.03	61	30	57
Oberlin College	2.00	54	27	36
Bowdoin College	2.00	26	13	49
St. Lawrence University	2.00	90	45	33