Early Applications Growth/Decline, class of 2017

Applying to College
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<p>Papa, do you have any statistics for the DC schools, Georgetown/American/George Washington?</p>

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<p>boysx3- Georgetown & GW EA/ED stats are on the list above. The source links (either an article or a master NYT table with app numbers) are in prior posts for every school. Nothing out on American from what I can find. Total apps info here (only Georgetown so far I think):
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1445310-total-applications-growth-decline-class-2017-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1445310-total-applications-growth-decline-class-2017-a.html&lt;/a&gt;
What else might you mean?</p>

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<p>NC State +12% [NC</a> State, UNC see rise in freshman applications](<a href=“http://www.wncn.com/story/20939267/nc-state-unc-see-rise-in-freshman-applications]NC”>http://www.wncn.com/story/20939267/nc-state-unc-see-rise-in-freshman-applications)</p>

<p>SUNY Oswego…perhaps +100%…I don’t think I will list that one yet until I see some further backup/info. [SUNY</a> Oswego - News & Events: Early Admissions](<a href=“http://www.oswego.edu/news/index.php/site/news_story/early_admissions]SUNY”>http://www.oswego.edu/news/index.php/site/news_story/early_admissions)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Colgate 20%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Cornell 16%
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10%
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.6%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>final December early numbers in for Colgate: +16.5%
[Colgate</a> University News](<a href=“http://news.colgate.edu/2013/02/applications-to-colgate-increase.html]Colgate”>Applications to Colgate increase | Colgate University)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10%
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.6%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

<p>median of this group: UVM 9.0%/Middlebury 8.9%
(as compared to the Total Apps median thus far of ~5.0%)</p>

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<p>It’s nice to see that Colgate had such a high number of early applicants… Makes me feel better about getting rejected from there ED! I wonder if at any point the number of applicants to college will stop increasing (obviously not this year but maybe in like 10 years?).</p>

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<p>fine-tuning here. Barnard reports a +6.8% increase in ED, slightly more than reported in NYT. [Barnard</a> Sees Record Number of Applications Again, Again | Bwog](<a href=“http://bwog.com/2013/02/05/barnard-sees-record-number-of-applications-again-again/]Barnard”>Barnard Sees Record Number of Applications Again, Again - Bwog)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10%
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>Kalamazoo ED +109% (yes, one hundred and nine) but very small numbers (from 23 to 48 applicants) so I will not include on the list below.
Kalamazoo EA +15%
[Kalamazoo</a> College’s applications are up 13 percent for Class of 2017 | MLive.com](<a href=“http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/02/kalamazoo_colleges_application.html]Kalamazoo”>Kalamazoo College's applications are up 13 percent for Class of 2017 - mlive.com)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Kalamazoo 15% (EA)
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10%
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>Amherst down 7%. <a href=“Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com;

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<p>stemit- this thread is for ED and EA apps numbers…that NYT list is for total apps. But thanks for pointing out the 2/4 NYT update, had not noticed it yet. I will peruse and update the Total Apps thread as needed.<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1445310-total-applications-growth-decline-class-2017-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1445310-total-applications-growth-decline-class-2017-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Swarthmore -6.1% (ED1+ED2 I think)
[The</a> Phoenix | Early Decision Applications Conclude for Class of 2017](<a href=“Map of Delaware River Basin courtesy of Swat Frack Action - The Phoenix”>Map of Delaware River Basin courtesy of Swat Frack Action - The Phoenix)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Kalamazoo 15% (EA)
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10%
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Swarthmore -6.1% (probably ED1+ED2)
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>Rarely do we get contemporaneous insight into ED2; only happens when ED1 numbers are first reported and subsequent total ED numbers are reported later, just as has happened with Vandy…</p>

<p>OK, first here are the facts so far reported & sources:</p>

<p>ED1: 2,054 apps, +20.61% increase from last year; 553 acceptances @ 26.92% accept rate
<a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;

<p>Total ED: 3,248 apps, +14% increase; 21.18% accept rate
[Early</a> Decision II Letters Mailed | The Vandy Admissions Blog | Vanderbilt University](<a href=“http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2013/02/early-decision-ii-letters-mailed/]Early”>Early Decision II Letters Mailed | The Vandy Admissions Blog | Vanderbilt University)</p>

<p>Total apps: 30,870 this year, 28348 last year, 8.90% increase
<a href=“Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com;

<p>Estimated numbers for ED:</p>

<p>ED2 apps this year- 3248-2054= 1194
ED1 apps last year- 2054/1.2061= 1703
Total ED apps last year- 3248/1.14= 2849
therefore ED2 apps last year- 2849-1703= 1146
ED2 growth- (1194-1146)-1= 4.19%</p>

<p>Total ED acceptance- 21.18%*3248= 688
ED2 Acceptances=688-553= 135
ED2 Accept Rate- 135/1194= 11.31%</p>

<p>Further teasing out numbers for RD:</p>

<p>RD Apps last year- 28348-2849= 25499
RD Apps this year- 30870-3248= 27622
RD App growth- (27622/25499)-1= 8.33%</p>

<p>bottom line, Vandy ED1 growth is the greater growth component (ED1, ED2, RD) in terms of percent. ED1 accept rate is over double ED2. I would expect RD accept rate to be close to ED2, although I have nothing Vandy-specific to base this conjecture on.</p>

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<p>erratum on the above post:</p>

<p>the line “ED2 growth” should read
(1194/1146)-1= 4.19%</p>

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<p>Emory 10% (ED1)
Emory 16% (ED2)
[Emory</a> and Oxford colleges receive record applications for fall 2013 | Emory University | Atlanta, GA](<a href=“http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/03/upress_record_applications_fall_2013/campus.html]Emory”>Emory and Oxford colleges receive record applications for fall 2013)</p>

<p>Northeastern 15% (EA)
[Northeastern</a> applicants show outstanding academic profile | news @ Northeastern](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/03/applications-fall-2013/]Northeastern”>Northeastern applicants show outstanding academic profile - Northeastern Global News)</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Emory 16% (ED2)
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
Northeastern 15% (EA)
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Kalamazoo 15% (EA)
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10% (ED1)
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Vanderbilt 4.2% (ED2)
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Swarthmore -6.1% (probably ED1+ED2)
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>I find the Emory news story quite discouraging. The world has certainly changed with respect to early applications–if you don’t do it you’re in trouble in a whole bunch of schools. Emory takes nearly 50%(!) of their ED1 & ED2 applicants, filling up half of their freshman class in the process. Then, they take less than 10% of the zillions of RD applicants, many of whom are, presumably, kids who applied unsuccessfully EA to Ivies and have no particular interest in the place, but, natch, look very good on paper. </p>

<p>It now seems that the only real way you can “show love” to a school is to apply there ED. Such love will be reciprocated. Any other kind–meh.</p>

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<p>missed this one for ED1…</p>

<p>Carleton ~25%
[The</a> Carletonian: 2013 Winter Issue 1](<a href=“The Carletonian”>The Carletonian)</p>

<p>These are 1st round Early (or the only ED/EA round) unless noted otherwise.</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Carleton ~25%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Emory 16% (ED2)
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
Northeastern 15% (EA)
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Kalamazoo 15% (EA)
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10% (ED1)
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Vanderbilt 4.2% (ED2)
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Swarthmore -6.1% (probably ED1+ED2)
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>Pitzer is down.</p>

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<p>marshall- can you give us a citation for Pitzer?</p>

<p>Providence 2.5% (EA)
<a href=“http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/Documents/Newsletter_January%202013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/Documents/Newsletter_January%202013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>These are 1st round Early (or the only ED/EA round) unless noted otherwise.</p>

<p>re-sort
Boston U 41%
Bates 35%
Case West. 34%
Babson (ED) 29%
Carleton ~25%
Elon (ED) 22%
Grinnell 21%
Vanderbilt 21%
Chicago 20%
Brandeis 19%
Wake Forest 19%
Clark 18%
Babson (EA) 17%
Cal Tech 17%
Tufts 17% (probably ED1+ED2)
Colgate 16.5%
Cornell 16%
Emory 16% (ED2)
Virginia 16%
Michigan 15%-16%
Harvard 15%
Northeastern 15% (EA)
UNC 15%
Fordham 15%
Kalamazoo 15% (EA)
Rochester 13%
NC State 12%
Princeton 11%
Miami U 11%
Emory 10% (ED1)
Notre Dame 10%
Wesleyan 10%
Lewis&Clark 9.8%
SUNY Bing. 9.6%
MIT 9%
UVM 9%
Middlebury 8.9%
Williams 8.3%
Northwestern 8.2%
Barnard 6.8%
Georgia Tech 6%
Penn 5.6%
W&L 4.7%
Yale 4.6%
Claremont McK 4.2%
Vanderbilt 4.2% (ED2)
Stanford 3.9%
Frostburg 3.5%
New York U 3.5%
Brown 3.1%
Providence 2.5% (EA)
George Wash 2.2%
Dickinson (EA) 2.1%
Va Tech 2%
Bowdoin 2.0%
Columbia 1.3%
Pomona 0.68%
Johns Hopk 0.35%
Georgetown 0.31%
Will&Mary 0.26%
Colby ~>0%, <2.8% (guestimate, probably ED1+ED2)
St Lawrence -1.3%
Elon (EA) -1.9%
Dickinson (ED) -3.2%
Smith -3.4%
Duke -3.8%
Cooper Union -3.9%
Scripps -4.0%
Swarthmore -6.1% (probably ED1+ED2)
Coll of NJ -10%
Dartmouth -13%</p>

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<p>Colorado College…

[CC</a> Receives a Record 5,775 Applications for Class of 2017 ? Colorado College](<a href=“http://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/cc-receives-a-record-5-775-applications-for-class-of-2017]CC”>http://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/cc-receives-a-record-5-775-applications-for-class-of-2017)</p>

<p>Since their 12-13 CDS is not yet posted, and I can’t find anything else with last year’s EA & ED apps numbers, I cannot yet calculate EA/ED growth. Given the overall apps growth for CC, I suspect EA/ED grew as well.</p>

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<p><a href=“https://www.coloradocollege.edu/dotAsset/493da844-1346-4533-9471-1fa529e459c9.pdf[/url]”>https://www.coloradocollege.edu/dotAsset/493da844-1346-4533-9471-1fa529e459c9.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;