How Many Accepted for Early Decision?

[davidtheusername]

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Is there anywhere you can find out how many students a school has taken early decision in previous years? I applied early decision for UTHSC in Memphis, but I honestly wasn't sure if it was a situation where "if you were going to get in anyways we'll let you in early decision" or "we will only let the top couple students in early decision" or somewhere in between.

 

[BiffTheFlashRogers]

There was a program that I was considering applying ED to. This school had an articulation agreement with my college as well as a few others. This agreement gave preferential admission to students from these agreement schools who had a gpa of 3.25 or higher in certain prereqs.

When I met with them they told me that I was as good as in if I applied ED. However, there are only ~40 spots per class and they fill up about 30-35 of those seats with ED and internal applicants. They told me the only people who would get those las 5-10 seats or so were the top of the top. If you wanted to get in as a more average student, you needed to go ED.

I'm not sure if this is representative of other programs but I hope this helps a little!

Oh, and yeah: I decided to not apply ED to this program. I'm just going to apply regular decision to them and 9 other places.

 

[davidtheusername]

Thanks. I'm hoping it's like that here as well. I'm only applying to UTHSC (wife/child/house/etc. I'll be the token old man of the class 🙂) so I'm really hoping to get it over with early decision. Otherwise, I'm going to be paranoid and stressed for the next few months.

 

[BiffTheFlashRogers]

Best of luck! Getting in soon would definitely make life easier.