Should you apply Early Decision to the school you're leaning toward?
Applying Early Decision?
Which school to use it on, from published figures.
Get the Early Decision answerBuilding your Regular Decision list?
Which schools sit past your score, and which to add.
Get the Regular Decision answerFree: what your school published, and where your score sits. $9.99 once: the full answer for your whole list. No account needed.
Most Early Decision deadlines: Nov 1 — 6 days left.
A sample list: 8 schools, SAT 1480
Early Decision answer
Use it on Tufts University.
with two schools added
Admit rates: College Scorecard 2024
Dot: your SAT 1480. Shaded: the middle 50% admitted.
Cost: average paid by families earning $48k–$75k with federal aid (AY 2023–24).
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This result is a data-driven prediction and does not guarantee admission.
105 Early Decision filings read
From each college’s Common Data Set.
What families paid at 542 colleges
By family income, from the College Scorecard.
No meeting to book
One page for your list, not a consultant’s package.
The three ways an application goes wrong.
Spending it on a school that was already going to say yes.
Some schools on your list your scores already clear. Using the one binding application there buys nothing.
Spending it on a school that was never going to say yes.
At the most selective schools the Early Decision bump is real but small. The filing shows exactly how small.
Finding out in March there was nothing on the list to fall back on.
One number tells you the chance your whole list says no. Most families never compute it.
Why this, and not a chat tool
- Each school’s own published numbers, with source and year named in the document.
- Your whole list worked out together: where to use Early Decision, up to two schools to add, and the chance every school says no, before and after.
- Your answer is recorded the day it is issued, cannot be changed, and is graded in public against real December results.
| What it does | Chat tool | Consultant | PrepToDone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Each school’s published numbers, with the source and year | If you ask | If you ask | In the document |
| Answers recorded, then graded in public | — | — | First report Dec 2026 |
| Cost | Monthly plan past the usage limit | $4,000–$7,500 | One payment, no account |
The columns describe kinds of help, not any one product or firm. Source: IECA, State of the Profession (2022) — the most recent industry-wide fee survey.
How it works
Enter your list
Add 1 to 15 schools, your SAT or ACT, and your income range.
See what’s free
See your first choice’s published Early Decision and regular rates, and where your score sits.
Get the answer
Pay once to learn which school gets your Early Decision, or that none should, and what to add.
What it costs
Free
- What each school on your list published: its admit rate and the scores it admitted
- Where your score sits at each one
For example, on the sample list
Brown University published an admit rate of 5.4% (College Scorecard 2024) and an SAT middle 50% of 1510–1580. SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th.
Early Decision answer
Paid once. No account. Tax included.
Launch price $9.99 through Nov 15, then $49
- Where your Early Decision makes the biggest difference: which school to use it on, or that none should get it
- Up to two schools to add where your score is near the top of the range they published, ranked close to the schools on your list, those whose own numbers favor Early Decision applicants first
- The chance every school says no, before and after
- 3 revisions within 90 days — change the list, and the document is re-issued
- Graded in public against real December results
14-day money-back guarantee — no questions asked
The target keeps moving.
Published admit rates, 2021–2025: the five most recent years schools have published. Every panel uses the same scale from zero, so the gaps you see are real.
Harvard University
4.0% → 4.2%
Yale University
5.3% → 4.8%
Brown University
5.5% → 6.3%
University of California-Los Angeles
10.8% → 9.4%
Shared axis: 0–15.0%. Sources: College Scorecard, College Scorecard + IPEDS ADM counts (2026-08-24), CDS 2025-2026 (C1), IPEDS Admissions Survey (NCES). Years shown are the most recent both published and shared by every school on this row. How we build this.
The price a college posts is not what families pay.
The posted price next to what families paid, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard. No signup.
| College | Price the college posts | What families actually payAvg. for families receiving federal aid | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton University(AY 2023–24) | $84,040/yr | $6,128/yr | −93% |
| Stanford University(AY 2023–24) | $87,833/yr | $13,807/yr | −84% |
| University of Chicago(AY 2023–24) | $90,360/yr | $14,860/yr | −84% |
| Vanderbilt University(AY 2023–24) | $89,590/yr | $15,846/yr | −82% |
| California Institute of Technology(AY 2023–24) | $86,886/yr | $16,075/yr | −81% |
International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
High-income families typically pay closer to sticker.
Questions people ask
Admit rates at the hardest schools to get into
See how each school’s admit rate has moved, from each college’s Common Data Set and federal data (College Scorecard · IPEDS). Browse the full directory.
- Harvard University acceptance rate4.2% (2025)
- Stanford University acceptance rate3.8% (2025)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology acceptance rate4.6% (2025)
- Yale University acceptance rate4.8% (2025)
- Princeton University acceptance rate4.6% (2024)
- Columbia University in the City of New York acceptance rate4.0% (2024)
- University of Pennsylvania acceptance rate5.4% (2024)
- Brown University acceptance rate6.3% (2025)
- Cornell University acceptance rate8.8% (2024)
- Dartmouth College acceptance rate6.0% (2025)
- Duke University acceptance rate5.2% (2025)
- Northwestern University acceptance rate7.7% (2024)
- University of Notre Dame acceptance rate9.4% (2025)
- Rice University acceptance rate8.0% (2025)
- University of Southern California acceptance rate11.2% (2025)
- Georgetown University acceptance rate13.5% (2025)
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor acceptance rate16.4% (2025)
- The University of Texas at Austin acceptance rate26.6% (2024)
- Boston College acceptance rate16.4% (2024)
- Tufts University acceptance rate10.8% (2025)