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Colleges that Accept Many Students through Early Decision

If you're an early bird, you should definitely look at these schools. Procrastinator? Maybe go to another list. Listed are the percentage of students who are accepted early decision.

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• St. Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA): 34.31%
• Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC): 34.12%
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 30.19%
• Columbia University (New York, NY): 26.01%
• Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL): 24.75%
• Grove City College (Grove City, PA): 23.98%
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH): 21.89%
• Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ): 20.4%
• Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA): 19.38%
• Brown University (Providence, RI): 19.11%
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY): 18.77%
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT): 18.04%
• Duke University (Durham, NC): 16.38%
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN): 16.28%
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT): 16.24%
• Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA): 16.15%
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT): 15.82%
• Colgate University (Hamilton, NY): 15.1%
• Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA): 15.02%
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY): 14.79%
• Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA): 14.7%
• Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA): 14.52%
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): 14.46%
• College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA): 14.25%
• Lafayette College (Easton, PA): 13.76%
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 13.09%
• College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA): 12.69%
• Emory University (Atlanta, GA): 12.64%
• Rice University (Houston, TX): 11.92%
• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY): 11.81%
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC): 11.76%
• Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA): 11.36%
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY): 10.54%
• New York University (New York, NY): 10.48%
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY): 10.47%
• Furman University (Greenville, SC): 10.1%
• University of Richmond (University of Richmond, VA): 9.47%
• Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC): 8.21%
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA): 7.44%
• The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ): 6.84%
• Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY): 6.68%
• High Point University (High Point, NC): 6.63%
• California Polytechnic State University — San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA): 6.58%
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY): 6.3%
• Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA): 6.12%
• Elon University (Elon, NC): 5.62%
• American University (Washington, DC): 5.25%
• SUNY — University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY): 2.83%
• Miami University — Oxford (Oxford, OH): 2.76%
• Boston University (Boston, MA): 1.78%

Source: Wintergreen Orchard House. Although the figures for the schools listed are accurate, there may be college omissions.