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The other Ivy League schools—the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth—all offer early decision processes. These are great schools, of course, but given it's highly likely the students applying to their school are also applying to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton (HYP), they want to know that in choosing to applying to them early, you are committed—just like that lover I spoke about earlier—and that they won't lose you to HYP or Stanford or MIT later down the regular decision line.

Some schools have become even more sophisticated in their early application process. My favorite example is the University of Chicago. Beyond their hilarious and complicated essays (in my application year, one question was “So where is Waldo, really?” requiring a 500-word response), they have optimized their early application process and in doing so helped boost their ranking significantly. As I write this, University of Chicago is ranked sixth in North America for best undergraduate universities, ahead of many Ivy League schools.