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  2. Early decision is an option that allows students to single out their top-choice school and apply to it months before regular applications are due. The choice is binding, but the student is ...

  3. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For students entering college directly after high school, the process typically begins in eleventh grade, with most applications submitted during twelfth grade. [2] Deadlines vary, with Early Decision or Early Action applications often due in October or November, and regular decision applications in December or January.

  4. Why students should consider early decision applications ...

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    For the Class of 2026, the regular admission rate at Harvard was 2.34%, while the early action admission rate was 7.87%. Similarly, Yale’s acceptance ratio of regular to early action was 3.17% ...

  5. Early decision - Wikipedia

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    Early decision (ED) or early acceptance is a type of early admission used in college admissions in the United States for admitting freshmen to undergraduate programs.It is used to indicate to the university or college that the candidate considers that institution to be their top choice through a binding commitment to enroll; in other words, if offered admission under an ED program, and the ...

  6. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  7. Decision time nears for college-bound students though many ...

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    It's crunch time for local college-bound students and their families, as they have just a couple of weeks to choose their college for the 2024-25 school year.

  8. College decision day passes many students by as financial aid ...

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    The Education Department has nearly finished working through its backlog, and “students who complete a FAFSA today can expect their records to be sent to colleges within one to three days ...

  9. Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia

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    Choice-supportive bias or post-purchase rationalization is the tendency to retroactively ascribe positive attributes to an option one has selected and/or to demote the forgone options. [1] It is part of cognitive science, and is a distinct cognitive bias that occurs once a decision is made. For example, if a person chooses option A instead of ...