<p>Does anyone have a good guess on the number of early applications that Harvard has received?</p>
<p>The following is a quote from the Harvard Crimson website:</p>
<p>"Harvard admissions officers did not return requests for Harvards early application numbers. Last year, the early application numbers were released on Nov. 17."</p>
<p>Today is November 30th, and decisions will be released in around 15 days, so do you all have any opinions?</p>
<p>It'll be an interesting year.</p>
<p>That is a good question. I'm wondering how the elimination of early action for 2007 may or may not have affected the numbers applying this year. It may have been a matter of confusion. On the other hand, Yale's SCEA numbers went down by 13%, leaving me to wonder all those applicants actually went.</p>
<p>Knowing our luck Harvard has about 10,000 applications for EA this year. That would suck!</p>
<p>Penn's applications went down 2.5% (last year it was a 20% increase) and they said it was due to a drop in Asian applicants</p>
<p>Stanford went up too though not by a very large amount (nothing like Yale's 13% decrease)</p>
<p>It would be interesting to know if Yale's decrease was all across the board in terms of geography, or the decrease was just in certain states</p>
<p>"Penn's applications went down 2.5% (last year it was a 20% increase) and they said it was due to a drop in Asian applicants" </p>
<p>seems kinda random. anyone know why</p>
<p>With all of the publicity over ending EA in 2007, I doubt Harvard's numbers went down. Urg, thats probably where Yale's 13% went :(</p>
<p>A farfetched guess would be that if you're asian, and go to upenn, you will make lots of asian friends-the theory that asian homies flock together. Two out of three Upenn friends of mine have facebook walls inundated with "Asian"ess, athough they did have lots of non-asian friends in high school.</p>
<p>Another wild guess is that Asians like me-who endeavor to become the future president of Vogue China and to make an album with Jay Zhou-were all pitted against each other and their acceptance rate to Wharton substantially decreased, discouraging their younger sibs and underclassmen to apply.</p>
<p>asian homies.. represent. </p>
<p>coming from a sterotypical asian perspective, i know that there is a lot more focus on brand name schools. schools like cornell and johns hopkins are thought of better than penn. its HYP or bust for asians with our massive focus on maths and sciences.</p>
<p>Haha. True.</p>
<p>feast your eyes.</p>
<p>it's really not that bad.</p>
<p>Well if you're international, engineering, or minority it's not looking good, but I'm not any of those so YAY!!!</p>
<p>No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am an international. Bless me.</p>
<p>33% increase for international students? That's cuh-razy!!!!!!!!!
I hope they all applied for engineering...:(</p>
<p>I am an international ... but nor for engineering major... I guess the battle is intense now ...:(</p>
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In addition, the number of Mexican-Americans seeking admission increased by 25 percent
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Yes, yes, we know what that means. This year 5 applied compared to 4 last year. Well... I'm one of those 5. =P</p>
<p>Less than 200 more than last year...not that bad i guess.</p>
<p>4,000 is the average number of EA applicants. It's pretty standard.</p>
<p>I'm surprised though. With Yale and Penn's decrease, and Harvard's slight increase, I wonder if this year really is the most competitive. I mean, if a record number of kids are applying to college, one would think all/most of the early pools would increase. This is obviously not the case. I am beginning to think the extra competitiveness this year is overhyped....I guess we'll see....</p>