<p>From today's YDN:</p>
<p>Fewer students applied early
After record-low admit rate last year, Univ. sees 13 percent decrease in number of early applications
By Kimberly Chow</p>
<p>Yale received 3,541 early applications this year, representing a 13 percent decrease from last year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said Thursday. </p>
<p>The decrease in early applications for the Class of 2011 may have resulted from a reaction to last year's record-low acceptance rate, among other possible factors, administrators said. Last year, 4,084 students applied early to Yale's class of 2010 under the single-choice early action policy, and an Ivy League-low 17.7 percent were accepted. No other Ivy League colleges have released their early admissions statistics yet, but Stanford University received 4,733 early applications, marking a five percent increase over last year.</p>