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50 Colleges With High Early Admission Rates
At these schools, applying early could raise your odds of getting in.
By Kim Clark
Updated 12/20/11: Statistics in this story have been updated to reflect admissions data based on fall 2010, the most recent year for which complete data are available.
As competition heightens for admission to top colleges, a growing number of students are trying to improve their odds by applying early—with good reason, as a U.S.News & World Report's analysis of 2010 admission statistics shows. At dozens of colleges, the admissions rate for early applicants is far higher than the admissions rate for high school seniors who wait until the regular deadlines.
These statistics only count the early applicants who are accepted early. Many colleges defer decisions on some early applicants, accepting them after the deadline for being counted as early admissions, so the eventual acceptance rate for early applicants is often even higher than these numbers indicate.
[Read about 3 reasons colleges accept more early applicants.]
Here is a list of 50 colleges with much higher admissions rate for early applicants than regular applicants, listed in order of the biggest differences between early and regular acceptance rates.
1 Tougaloo College
2 University of Arkansas
3 Agnes Scott College
4 St. Lawrence University
5 University of North Florida
6 Illinois Wesleyan University
7 Central Christian College
8 High Point University
9 Lawrence University
10 College of the Holy Cross
11 Presbyterian College
12 Stonehill College
13 Ursinus College
14 Meredith College
15 Miami University
16 Denison University
17 The Sage Colleges
18 University of Dayton
19 Bucknell University
20 Skidmore College
21 Union College
22 Whitman College
23 Lehigh University
24 Muhlenberg College
25 SUNY Institute of Technology--Utica/Rome
26 Wabash College
27 Wheelock College
28 Wittenberg University
29 Connecticut College
30 Davidson College
31 Oberlin College
32 Trinity University
33 American University
34 Butler University
35 Westmont College
36 Haverford College
37 University of Puget Sound
38 University of Vermont
39 Beloit College WI
40 Bentley University
41 Colorado College
42 DePaul University
43 Lafayette College
44 Linfield College
45 University of Tampa
46 Washington and Lee University
47 George Mason University
48 Gettysburg College
49 Kalamazoo College
50 La Salle University
51 University of Connecticut
52 University of Georgia
*Combines early decision and early action programs at those colleges that have both. In addition, some colleges defer some early applicants to the regular pool, where they have an additional chance of admittance, so the percentage of early applicants who are eventually accepted may be higher. Because of ties, there are more than 50 schools listed.
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