<p>EA applications for the Class of 2012 increased from 4562 last year to over 6,000 this year, an increase of over 31%. </p>
<p>The overall admission rate is projected to decline to 18% this year at Georgetown. </p>
<p>fantastic.</p>
<p>that makes me feel so good</p>
<p>more and better competition. SUPER DUPER!</p>
<p>Relax. The admissions office might compensate for a lower EA yield by admitting a higher-than-average number of students this EA cycle. Also, most of the students applying EA probably would have applied RD anyway... remember, you can't be rejected under EA, just deferred or admitted.</p>
<p>A 3% drop to 18%. They're still accepting more kids than they did the class before.</p>
<p>Even though there is an increase in the number of early applications, don't they keep the EA admit rate around the same as the RD admit rate? (thus, more students accepted EA this year)</p>
<p>yeah the increased number of apps even with a lower acceptance rate still means that about the same number or even a little more people will be accepted EA</p>
<p>shouldn't they accept a larger percent? they're going to have a much lower yield this year because of students taking harvard, princeton, and uva over georgetown.</p>
<p>wpolo, those that are deferred EA will just get admitted RD when the Harvard/Princeton/UVA kids say they're not going to Georgetown.</p>
<p>But all RD results come out around the same time, so those kids who want to go to another school won't tell Georgetown that until after the RD results have come out. Maybe Georgetown will just put more people on the waitlist, and end up accepting more off of it.</p>
<p>MSB had a 49% increase in EA applicants.</p>
<p>How exciting. Well, we'll just have to wait and see...I guess...</p>