Starting a new thread for the new admissions season…
Not much of a surprise to see applicant pools up. A few schools have released their early admission decisions but not released data. Here are some that have made announcements.
Brown 769/4230
https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/12/admit
Columbia - 4461 applicants
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/12/13/cc-seas-receive-highest-number-of-early-applicants-ever/
Duke 882/4852
https://today.duke.edu/2018/12/more-880-early-decision-applicants-admitted-duke
Harvard 935/6958
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/12/935-admitted-early-to-harvard-college-class-of-23/
Penn 1279/7110
https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/12/upenn-early-decision-ed-admissions-release-class-of-2023-ivy-league
Princeton 743/5335
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/12/12/princeton-offers-early-action-admission-743-students-class-2023
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
https://news.yale.edu/2018/12/14/794-early-action-applicants-admitted-class-2023
The early admission number of 794 is a significant drop from the past two years, when 842 and 871 were admitted. The incoming class has been slightly expanded since 2016 as Yale went to 14 colleges.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/12/14/yale-admits-13-19-percent-of-early-applicants/
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/12/14/hopkins-early-decision-class-of-2023/
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/12/dartmouth-accepts-574-students-out-of-a-record-high-2474-applicants
Cornell ED : 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%), both admits and applicants were down from last year.
https://cornellsun.com/2018/12/14/cornell-accepts-22-6-percent-of-early-decision-applicants-for-the-class-of-2023/
Barnard ED: 1,235 applicants, up 24% from last year. Like Columbia, it has not released early admissions numbers in recent years.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/12/14/number-of-early-applicants-to-barnard-increases-24-percent/
Emory and Oxford College ED1: 559 and 256, out of 1,910 applicants to one or both. Number of admits are higher than last year.
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/12/er_early_decision_admission_2023/campus.html
MIT EA: 707 out of 9,600 (7.4%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Cornell ED : 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%)
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
Emory and Oxford College ED1: 559 and 256, out of 1,910 (42.6%)
@jin2000
For Emory that’s not how that works, as a significant portion (usually around half ) are accepted to both, thus you are double counting. The ED rate for Emory is around 29%, the ED rate for Oxford is unknown but lower.
MIT EA: 707 out of 9,600 (7.4%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Cornell ED : 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%)
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
Emory ED1: ~559 out of 1,910 (~29%)
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
** Middlebury ED1: 297 out of 654 (45.4%)**
http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2018-news/node/606327
Also anyone know why Northwestern hasn’t released their data yet? I feel like they usually do around this time already.
MIT EA: 707 out of 9,600 (7.4%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Notre Dame REA: 1,534 out of 7,334 (20.9%)
Cornell ED : 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%)
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
Emory ED1: ~559 out of 1,910 (~29%)
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
Middlebury ED1: 297 out of 654 (45.4%)
I did not know Gtown was into the whole numbers gaming thing like some others.
^I don’t think Gtown is into gaming numbers. Otherwise it would accept the Common App, not ask for 3 subject tests, not have restrictive early action (can’t ED elsewhere), add ED, etc. It has said in the past that its EA may be more challenging than its RD round. (Also, acceptance rate is no longer part of US News ranking calculation)
I don’t believe Gtown games it. My understanding is that the EA round is noticeably more competitive than the RD round there.
As per @evergreen5 , Gtown specifically said at their info session that they make their applications a lot of work because they want to know that people really want to go there, not just tick a box and rework a supplement on the common app. Plus vs some ED schools who admit ED is an advantage, Gtown were clear EA admissions are limited to those they are absolutely sure would make the cut regardless of what the rest of the pool would look like.
@SJ2727 @evergreen5
I wasn’t talking about the scores as we know Gtown won’t enroll that high, but accepting fewer students despite having smaller applicant pool just to make sure the acceptance rate decreased no matter how minuscule.
I would like to know the yield rate for EA students there.
@emorynavy, is that even really an issue for EA, rather than the the whole pool? Isn’t it the final admit number that “matters’ (inasmuch as these things are considered important) rather than the EA one?
Because it’s REA, and because the application takes so much work, I’d expect the yield on EA to be pretty high. These are applicants who really want to go there.
@emorynavy Gtown was overenrolled for Class of 2022 by around 100 students off target and 120 off anticipated: http://www.thehoya.com/admissions-yield-reaches-50-percent-following-lowest-ever-acceptance-rate/ Accordingly, it makes sense that they decreased EA acceptances for 2023.
@emorynavy - no affiliation with g’town but they do not seem to be a school gaming the system. U Chicago is the ‘best’ at that. to Game the system - have multiple “ED” binding rounds, no subject test req;uirements and no SAT/ACT requirement (Chicago, bowdoin). G’town is probably the least ‘gaming’ school of the top 25
@anon145
I was just mentioning this year. I wasn’t saying that Gtown games more than others, just that they did it at all. They do come across as admissions purist, but they clearly care at least a little or they wouldn’t even mention the decline in apps.
MIT EA: 707 out of 9,600 (7.4%)
Yale SCEA: 794 out of 6,016 (13.2%)
Harvard REA: 935 out of 6,958 (13.4%)
Princeton SCEA: 743 out of 5,335 (13.9%)
Penn ED: 1279 out of 7,110 (18.0%)
Brown ED: 769 out of 4,230 (18.2%)
Duke ED: 882 out of 4,852 (18.2%)
Notre Dame REA: 1,534 out of 7,334 (20.9%)
Cornell ED : 1,395 out of 6,159 (22.6%)
Dartmouth ED: 574 out of 2,474 (23.2%)
Northwestern ED: ~1,100 out of 4,399 (~25.0%)
Emory ED1: ~559 out of 1,910 (~29%)
Johns Hopkins ED: 641 out of 2,068 (31.0%)
Middlebury ED1: 297 out of 654 (45.4%)