Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

By Christopher Avery, Jonathan D. Levin. 2010

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Early admissions is widely used by selective colleges and universities. We identify some basic facts about early admissions policies, including the admissions advantage enjoyed by early applicants and patterns in application behavior, and propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Student Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem (2014, methodology): “Like the decentralized model of Avery and Levin (2010), there is a continuum of students; this avoids colleges facing aggregate uncertainty— otherwise, wait-listing is needed, for instance.6 Colleges seek to fill their capacity with the best students possible, but student calibers are only…”