<p>The numbers have started to come in. As an example, Dartmouth just released this: </p>
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Four hundred sixty-nine students were admitted to the Class of 2018 through the early decision process, the College announced on Dec. 11. The accepted students — selected from 1,678 early applicants — are intended to make up 40 percent of the Class of 2018, according to a College press release. The College received 1,678 early decision applications for the Class of 2018 as of the Nov. 8 deadline, a 6.7 percent increase from last year</p>
<p>The early decision numbers reflect a 27.9 percent acceptance rate, a nearly 2 percent decrease from the early admissions rate for the Class of 2017. </p>
<p>The mean SAT score for admitted students is 2156, and the mean ACT is 32.1, the press release states. The average SAT is slightly higher than last year’s mean of 2141 for students admitted through the early decision process, as well as the averages of 2146 and 2144 for the Classes of 2016 and 2015 respectivel
<p>The numbers are out: 3,296 applicants applied Early Decision to the College and SEAS for the Class of 2018. This is the largest Early Decision applicant pool in Columbia history, up from last year by 5.4 percent. Go, Columbia hopefuls!</p>
<p>The Office of Admission received 3,086 early decision applications for the class of 2018, a record high and a 2 percent increase in applicants from last year’s early pool, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73.</p>
<p>The University received 3,010 early applicants last year.</p>
<p>Yale received a total of 4,768 early applications for the class of 2018 — a 5.6 percent increase from last year.</p>
<p>The Admissions Office received 4,514 early applications for its single-choice early action program in 2012, and 4,323 applications in 2011. In the three years prior to 2011 — the year that Harvard and Princeton reinstated their early application programs — Yale’s early applications topped 5,000, with an all-time peak of 5,556 early applications in 2008.</p>
<p>Cornell had 4,203 ED applicants last year. Just received this in my e-mail inbox along with the link to set my password to access my decision result. We can assume that the numbers stayed pretty much the same for Cornell.</p>
<p>Durham, NC - On Thursday evening, 797 high school seniors will find out they are the first members of Duke University’s Class of 2018. Last year, the university accepted 753 students through Early Decision.</p>
<p>This year, 3,180 students applied under Duke’s Early Decision program, a 25 percent increase over last year and the largest number ever recorded. </p>
<p>Even with the increase in the number of students admitted, the admit rate for Early Decision decreased to 25 percent, the most selective Early Decision process in Duke’s history.</p>
<p>Students admitted through Early Decision this year will represent almost 47 percent of next fall’s incoming class, which is expected to include 1,705 students. Of the 797 students offered admission, 643 will enroll in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the remaining 154 will enroll in the Pratt School of Engineering.</p>
<p>Rather than postal mail notification as in the past, Worcester Polytechnic Institute said it would release EA 1 decisions late in the day on 12/16 via email. My guess is it is due to the 25% increase in the number of EA 1 applicants.</p>
<p>The question is here with the in increase in the number of early applicants is do early application rates drop with the effect of lowering the overall acceptance rates but keeps the percent of early applicants in the class the same or do they keep the early acceptance rates the same increasing the portion of the incoming class applying early and thereby drastically reducing overall the acceptance rates. That was a long sentance.</p>
<p>@oompaloompa64 Data are often from news stories; if so they should be linked to the CC post. If there’s no source, you might ask the poster to add or explain their source or do a Google search and post a source yourself. I don’t think there is bias on this board. It seems like not all schools release their stats (in a timely manner) or else they don’t get picked up by the media. For example, @prodigykyle I searched for Rice and didn’t get anything for this year. @Heatfan1009 If you search for NCSU, go ahead and post the results. Historical EA results are usually available for schools if you search for “common data set” and the school name. For example, here are Rice’s reports [Common</a> Data Set : Rice University Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://www.oir.rice.edu/Common_Data_Set/]Common”>http://www.oir.rice.edu/Common_Data_Set/)</p>
<p>TCU offered ED for the first time this year (has offered and still offers EA). They report that they received over 400 applications ED, and mailed offers to 241 students.</p>