<p>Just a quick and dirty review of the early results for the CC favorites.</p>
<p>Harvard 611 more applications - 123 more admissions - 18.4 Admit Rate
Yale 216 more applications - 26 fewer admissions - 14.4 Admit Rate
Stanford 233 more applications - 30 fewer admissions - 11.9 Admit Rate
Penn 286 more applications - 48 more admissions - 24.9 Admit Rate
Brown 91 more applications - 2 more admissions - 18.5 Admit Rate
Dartmouth 226 fewer applications - 1 fewer admission - 29.5 Admit Rate
Columbia 36 more applications - still deciding what number to make up
Cornell and Princeton - NA</p>
<p>See Last weekend, 650 students were offered early-action undergraduate admission to MITs Class of 2017. The 6,541 students who applied to MIT during the early-action period represent a 9 percent increase from the previous year.</p>
<p>MITs nonrestrictive, nonbinding early-action program attracts a large number of excellent applications; the Institute tends to be conservative in the number of students it admits early. </p>
<p>Our admitting of less than 10 percent of our early-action applicants this year is unprecedented, and speaks to how many students appreciate and value the kind of education MIT offers, says MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill. The students who were admitted are exceptional. Its an exciting time for MIT.</p>
<p>The yield range for ED student is usually 90-100 percent with the most selective schools typically being at around 97-99 percent. ED students at the same schools represent around 50 percent of the class, with some schools pushing the envelope slightly above it.</p>
<p>It is much harder to predict for EA schools as some accept more students in the unrestricted EA round than they have seats. The yield on such EA is much lower.</p>
<p>Hard to say for sure, but if I had to point to something I’d say ED apps are probably down due to a lot of bad publicity the school got from the publication in 2012 of the very negative Rolling Stone article about the predominant frat culture and the over-the-top hazing the author claims to have endured. Even though most of the worst assertions were later refuted, the damage was already done by the sensationalistic headlines.</p>
<p>That would represent quite a departure from the previous years as Chicago admitted close to 1,700 thee years ago out of 5,800 students (29 percent admit rate) and more than 1,500 out of 8,700 applicants for a 18 percent rate. </p>
<p>Everything is possible, but I seriously doubt that Chicago admitted only 900 students in EA.</p>
<p>Well, all of them I guess. How do you know how many applications these schools have gotten and how many kids have been accepted? Do they have this info on their CDS already?</p>
<p>I tend to compare the numbers released at the same time last year, although it might be a bit different than what is reported on the official CDS. The differences are minimal as the school report a few more late applications that might not have been counted correctly. Same for a few more admissions. </p>
<p>PS The available CDS will be for the Classes of 2016 or 2015 for the late bloomers.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago hasn’t released precise numbers on its EA admissions, as far as I know, but one of the admissions people posted here that it accepted “about 13%” of its EA applicants. That would basically put EA acceptances at 1,300-1,400 which is about 10% less than last year, but in line with the class of 2015.</p>
<p>Their EA applications had increased over 18%, from 8,698 last year to 10,312 this year. More applications and fewer acceptances meant that the acceptance rate was much lower – 13% vs. 17.5%.</p>