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SAT 1480 · Family income $48k–$75k
The schools on your list that report Early Decision all publish an admitted range that sits above your score. Early Decision does not move a school’s range; it is a commitment made inside it. Nothing on this list is a place to spend it.
Chance every school says no
45.8% → 17.6%
with two schools added
Most of this is decided by the school. Your profile moves it a little, and this page is about where that little is worth spending.
This result is a data-driven prediction and does not guarantee admission.
Early Decision against Regular, school by school
Estimates| School | Regular | Early Decision | Gain in points | Adjustment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College | 2.7% | 15.4% | +12.7 | ×0.71 · your score is under its range |
| Northwestern University | 4.2% | 14.6% | +10.4 | ×0.71 · your score is under its range |
| Brown University | 3.4% | 12.8% | +9.4 | ×0.71 · your score is under its range |
| Johns Hopkins University | 3.7% | 7.8% | +4.1 | ×0.71 · your score is under its range |
| Rice University | 5.3% | 8.0% | +2.7 | ×0.71 · your score is under its range |
No Early Decision estimate: Harvard University · University of California-Los Angeles · The University of Texas at Austin
If your SAT were 1500, Dartmouth College would be in range — that is the bottom of the range it published.
Two schools ranked just below your own list, on the same U.S. News list, that admit at your score band. Listed by rank. Turn on up to two — the figure above moves, and your choice is saved with this document.
Lehigh University
Admitted 47.4% of its Early Decision applicants against 26.8% of everyone else (Common Data Set 2025-2026). Your SAT 1480 is within 20 points of its admitted 75th percentile (1500). · Overall admit rate 25.9%
This compares two rates the school published for two groups of applicants. The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of the applicants — recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches are counted inside it — so this is a difference between the school’s two pools, not a multiplier on your own chances.
Family income $48k–$75k: $18,722/yr (AY 2023–24)
26–50 · U.S. News National Universities 2026
Santa Clara University
Admitted 76.4% of its Early Decision applicants against 47.0% of everyone else (Common Data Set 2025-2026). Your SAT 1480 is within 10 points of its admitted 75th percentile (1490). · Overall admit rate 48.0%
Family income $48k–$75k: $26,531/yr (AY 2023–24)
51–100 · U.S. News National Universities 2026
Up to 2 at a time.
This document names no school for your Early Decision application, so there is no early answer to wait for. These are the dates the rest of your list runs on.
Your earliest Regular Decision deadline is Dec 1, 2026 (The University of Texas at Austin).
Your score across every band
your 1480 — the dashed line across every band
Admitted 17.9% of its Early Decision applicants against 4.8% of everyone else in the same pool — 3.7x
Common Data Set 2025-2026
Your SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th (1510–1580).
Overall admit rate: 5.4%
Family income $48k–$75k: $5,858/yr (AY 2023–24)
Admitted 21.6% of its Early Decision applicants against 3.8% of everyone else in the same pool — 5.7x
Common Data Set 2025-2026
Your SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th (1500–1570).
Overall admit rate: 5.4%
Family income $48k–$75k: $2,695/yr (AY 2023–24)
Admitted 10.9% of its Early Decision applicants against 5.2% of everyone else in the same pool — 2.1x
Common Data Set 2025-2026
Your SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th (1520–1570).
Overall admit rate: 6.4%
Family income $48k–$75k: $4,179/yr (AY 2023–24)
Admitted 20.4% of its Early Decision applicants against 5.8% of everyone else in the same pool — 3.5x
Common Data Set 2025-2026
Your SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th (1510–1570).
Overall admit rate: 7.7%
Family income $48k–$75k: $7,898/yr (AY 2023–24)
Admitted 11.3% of its Early Decision applicants against 7.4% of everyone else in the same pool — 1.5x
Common Data Set 2025-2026
Your SAT 1480 is below the admitted 25th (1510–1570).
Overall admit rate: 8.0%
Family income $48k–$75k: $3,217/yr (AY 2023–24)
Runs Early Action or Restrictive Early Action (2026-2027). Not binding, and not the application this page is about.
Overall admit rate: 3.7%
Family income $48k–$75k: $2,091/yr (AY 2023–24)
Overall admit rate: 9.0%
Family income $48k–$75k: $9,811/yr (in-state figure) (AY 2023–24)
Runs Early Action or Restrictive Early Action (2026-2027). Not binding, and not the application this page is about.
Overall admit rate: 26.6%
Family income $48k–$75k: $17,207/yr (in-state figure) (AY 2023–24)
What each would cost you
Family income $48k–$75k
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard). (AY 2023–24)
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard). 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.
This compares two rates the school published for two groups of applicants. The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of the applicants — recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches are counted inside it — so this is a difference between the school’s two pools, not a multiplier on your own chances.
Where a figure is labelled Common Data Set, it comes from the school's own annual filing for the cycle named beside it — not from a federal dataset.
45.8% → 17.6%
Chance that every school on this list says no, before and after the anchors you accepted.
This multiplies each school’s published admit rate as if the decisions were independent. They are not — the same transcript is read by every office — so treat it as a look at the shape of the list, not a forecast about you.
Estimates How these are estimated
Admit rate outside Early Decision 4.8% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1510–1580).
Early Decision admit rate the school filed 17.9% ×0.71.
Filing: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Admit rate outside Early Decision 3.8% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1500–1570).
Early Decision admit rate the school filed 21.6% ×0.71.
Filing: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Admit rate outside Early Decision 5.2% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1520–1570).
Early Decision admit rate the school filed 10.9% ×0.71.
Filing: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Admit rate outside Early Decision 5.8% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1510–1570).
Early Decision admit rate the school filed 20.4% ×0.71.
Filing: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Admit rate outside Early Decision 7.4% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1510–1570).
Early Decision admit rate the school filed 11.3% ×0.71.
Filing: Common Data Set 2025-2026
Published admit rate 3.7% ×0.71 — your SAT is under the range it admitted (1510–1580).
Early Decision: Early Action / REA — no binding Early Decision
Published admit rate 9.0%, not adjusted — this school publishes no admitted range for the SAT.
Early Decision: No early application plan
Published admit rate 26.6%, not adjusted — your SAT is inside the range it admitted (1250–1510).
Early Decision: Early Action / REA — no binding Early Decision
These are estimates. Regular starts from the school’s admit rate outside Early Decision — everyone who did not apply early, from the same filing — or from its published admit rate where the school filed no Early Decision counts. Early Decision starts from the Early Decision admit rate the school filed. Both take one factor for where your test score sits against the range that school admitted: ×0.71 below its 25th percentile; inside the range or at or above its 75th, no adjustment — we never print an estimate above the rate the school reported, because that rate counts every admit, including those admitted for reasons a test score can't show. The ×0.71 rests on our assumption about who applies (35% of applicants below the range, 45% inside it, 20% above) — no school publishes that split, and we apply the same split to the early pool. The rate a school filed for its early pool includes recruited athletes and legacy applicants; the estimate does not take them out. No estimate is printed above 90%. Because the factor is the same on both, the two estimates stand in the ratio the school’s own filing shows — its Early Decision admit rate over the admit rate of everyone else, the multiple printed on its card. Your grades, essays and activities are not inputs to either figure — they move your own result, and no published number says by how much.
For international students: the admit rates here count US and international applicants together, and the prices are averages for US families who received federal aid. If you'll need aid, check what each college gives international students before you commit to Early Decision.
This is the document for one made-up list. Yours is built from the schools you are actually applying to.