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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. 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 ...

  5. 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% ...

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

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    But decision day is looking more muted this year, the result of a scrambled financial aid application process that has pushed some enrollment deadlines well past Memorial Day.

  8. School choice - Wikipedia

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    For the 2020–2021 school year, public school enrollment fell by 3 percent. Private and charter schools grew an estimated 7 percent. 18 states either initiated school-choice programs or expanded offerings, making 3.6 million American students eligible for school choice and/or homeschool support programs. Several states expanded eligibility to ...

  9. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

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    Of these, sunk costs, time investment, decision maker experience and expertise, self-efficacy and confidence, personal responsibility for the initial decision, ego threat, and proximity to project completion have been found to have positive relationships with escalation of commitment, while anticipated regret and positive information framing ...