This is a special post for quick takes by Uni Groups Team. Only they can create top-level comments. Comments here also appear on the Quick Takes page and All Posts page.
As a group organiser I was wildly miscalibrated about the acceptance rate for EAGs! I spoke to the EAG team, and here are the actual figures:
- The overall acceptance rate for undergraduate student is about ¾! (2024)
- For undergraduate first timers, it’s about ½ (Bay Area 2025)
If that’s peaked your interest, EAG London 2025 applications close soon - apply here!
Jemima
Ah that's great info! Would be useful to get similar numbers for EAGx events. I know the overall acceptance rate is quite high, but don't know how it is for students who are applying for their regional EAGx.
- EAGx undergraduate acceptance rate across 2024 and 2025 = ~82%
- EAGx first-timer undergraduate acceptance rate across 2024 and 2025 = ~76%
Obvious caveat that if we tell lots of people that the acceptance rate is high, we might attract more people without any context on EA and the rate would go down.
(I've not closely checked the data)
We just wanted to transparently share that CEA’s University Groups Team is not running two of our historical programs over the next few months:
- A University Group Organizer Retreat (UGOR), which was usually run over (northern hemisphere) winter break
- Our summer internship, usually run from May - September
We think both programs are relatively valuable, but are less aligned with our current vision (of providing value through helping EA university group organizers run better groups) than some of our alternatives.
We have made this (difficult!) decision so that we can instead focus on:
- Running our Organizer Support Program, a three-week to semester-long mentorship program
- Increasing capacity on the team (currently under 3 FTE), including by recruiting a strategy lead for our pilot university work (and building out that work more generally)
- Further building out our grantmaking capacity
- Potentially piloting new scalable programming
- (And more)
This decision does not rule out running UGOR or our internship in the future. In fact, we are exploring whether we should run UGOR over (northern hemisphere) summer break, allowing more groups to better prepare for their academic year. We piloted such a retreat as part of our pilot university programming this summer, and that worked well.
We aim to continue to transparently share updates such as this one! We are also always open to feedback (including anonymously), especially if you have specific suggestions on what things we should deprioritize to create space for UGOR or the summer internship.
Thank you for sharing this update! I’m interested in learning more about how you arrived at this decision, as we at EA Netherlands often encounter similar choices. Your insights could be really valuable for us.
Would you mind sharing a bit about your reasoning process?
Thanks again for keeping us informed!
Obvious caveat that if we tell lots of people that the acceptance rate is high, we might attract more people without any context on EA and the rate would go down.
(I've not closely checked the data)