<p>Xiggi, I would be interested in your take as to how this growth in ED/EA will affect students applying EA. Would you speculate that the increase in applicants is more qualified students (more likely to get in because of stats) or what…? (I would like to say the ease of using the Common App but we know that isn’t necessarily true…
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<p>Ooops…I meant to say affect students appying Regular Decision…</p>
<p>**Williams **accepted 237
[Williams</a>’ Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.](<a href=“Williams' Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.”>Williams' Early Decision Admits 237 for 2018 Class / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.)</p>
<p>**Brown **accepted 18.9% of its ED applicants.
[U</a>. accepts 18.9 percent of early decision applicants ? Brown Daily Herald](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/12/12/u-accepts-18-9-percent-early-decision-applicants]U”>U. accepts 18.9 percent of early decision applicants - The Brown Daily Herald)</p>
<p>**Columbia **received 3,298 ED applicants to Columbia College and SEAS
[Congratulations</a> to the Early Decision class of 2018 | Spectrum](<a href=“http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/congratulations-to-the-early-decision-class-of-2018]Congratulations”>http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/congratulations-to-the-early-decision-class-of-2018)</p>
<p>**Dartmouth ** ED apps were up 6% and 28% were accepted
[Dartmouth</a> Accepts 469 Early Decision Applicants | Dartmouth Now](<a href=“http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/12/dartmouth-accepts-469-early-decision-applicants/#.UqjTPc2vtqQ.twitter]Dartmouth”>http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/12/dartmouth-accepts-469-early-decision-applicants/#.UqjTPc2vtqQ.twitter)</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>is there a source for this?</p>
<p>EDIT: found it</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/WPIAdmissions/posts/10152052855965659[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/WPIAdmissions/posts/10152052855965659</a></p>
<p>Harvard had a slight decrease in applicants for EA this year.</p>
<p>[992</a> admitted under Early Action | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/12/992-admitted-under-early-action/]992”>992 admitted under Early Action – Harvard Gazette)</p>
<p>Wow. In a couple of years Harvard will do away with RD altogether based on numbers they are admitting early.</p>
<p>They will probably admit only 970 people or fewer in RD if they are expecting 90+ percent acceptance from REA and 78% from RD.</p>
<p>Stanford admitted 748 out of 6,948 early applicants. 6,948 applicants is a record and an increase of 14% over last year. The early acceptance rate was 10.8%. </p>
<p>[Stanford</a> admits 748 early applicants to the Class of 2018](<a href=“You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News”>You've requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News)</p>
<p>Khalilzhad: I EDed swarthmore!! so exciting</p>
<p>Wowza, these stats :o</p>
<p>Data10 - Wow, just wow! Those stats hands down indicate that Stanford is THE it school among graduating high schoolers and internationals. The Ivies were blown out of the water. </p>
<p>With 6948 early apps at Stanford compared with Y at 4768, H at 4692, and P at 3831 the numbers make it clear what the preference is for restrictive early action applicants.</p>
<p>As last year, H is trying to signal higher early acceptances to generate a higher pool of applications early to catch up to “new Ivy” on the block!</p>
<p>Anecdotally, I had posted last year that during post-admission visit weekends, our student observed that Stanford was the desired university for the entire experience - academic, social, athletic among those peers met making decisions. Curious how the cross-admit numbers are shaking out.</p>
<p>**Northwestern **admitted 925 (32.3% of its 2,863 ED applicants)</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Northwestern : Northwestern admits nearly 1,000 to class of 2018 during early decision period](<a href=“http://dailynorthwestern.com/2013/12/13/campus/northwestern-admits-nearly-1000-to-class-of-2018-during-early-decision-period/]The”>Northwestern admits nearly 1,000 to class of 2018 during early decision period)</p>
<p>I guess a deferred status from Stanford isn’t tragic after all.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins admitted 526 (32.97%) ED applicants.</p>
<p>[Johns</a> Hopkins selects early decision students from record applicant pool | Hub](<a href=“http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/12/13/johns-hopkins-arly-decision-class-of-2018]Johns”>http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/12/13/johns-hopkins-arly-decision-class-of-2018)</p>
<p>SahP,</p>
<p>I would say MIT is right there with Stanford: 6820 applicants, 612 admits for a 8.9% admit rate, if my math is correct.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Early Action Decisions Now Available Online | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-early-action-decisions-now-available-online1]MIT”>MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>sbjdorlo - agree on MIT and rising number of apps, but my comment was about Restrictive early action schools. I believe MIT is just Early action so many students can choose to apply to them as well as ED elsewhere. </p>
<p>From the MIT website:
MIT Early Action isn’t single-choice, binding, or anything like that. If you choose to apply to MIT during Early Action, we do not place any limits on where else you may apply, nor do we require you to attend if admitted (though we sure hope you do!)</p>
<p>Absolutely agree that MIT is trouncing the field with their early app numbers given that they also do not permit internationals to even apply in that round, but wait until the regular cycle…therefore, their entire early pool is domestic high-school students compared to Stanford and the Single Choice Early Action Schools that get their numbers from domestic and international students.</p>
<p>A summary of results so far is below. Results are sorted by decision type, then acceptance rate. When acceptance rate is not yet available, the order is based on extrapolation from previous year.</p>
<p>EA Colleges
MIT – 8.9%, 6820 applicants (up 12%)
University of Chicago – ?%, 11,143 applicants (up 7%)
WPI – ?%, ~3600 applicants
University of Georgia, ~62%, >12,000 applicants</p>
<p>REA Colleges
Stanford – 10.8%, 6,948 applicants (up 14%)
Yale – ?%, 4,768 applicants (up 6%)
Princeton – ?%, 3831 applicants (up 1%)
Harvard – 21.1%, 4,692 applicants (down 3%)</p>
<p>ED Colleges
Columbia – ?%, 3,298 applicants (up 5%)
Brown – 18.9%, 3,088 applicants (up 2%)
University of Pennsylvania – ?%, 5,133 applicants (up 7%)
Duke – 25.1%, 3,180 applicants (up 25%)
Dartmouth – 27.9%, 1,678 applicants (down 2%)
Northwestern – 32.3%, 2,863 applicants (up 15%)
John Hopkins – 33.0%, 1,595 applicants (up 11%)
William and Mary – ?%, >1200 applicants
Williams – 42.8%, 554 applicants
Boston University – ?%, 1,742 applicants (up 15%)</p>
<p>Don’t have official/exact results, but my Georgetown acceptance letter said that they considered “over 6700 applications” and admitted “approximately 14%” of applicants for Early Action.</p>
<p>Applications numbers were “stable” overall.</p>
<p>[Early</a> Applications Stable, Diversity Up - The Hoya](<a href=“http://www.thehoya.com/early-applications-stable-diversity-up-1.3115484#.Uq0YrmRDtMY]Early”>http://www.thehoya.com/early-applications-stable-diversity-up-1.3115484#.Uq0YrmRDtMY)</p>
<p>Pomona ED1 applications were up around 40% from last year. Not sure what the final acceptance rate was, but the Choice should be reporting it soon.</p>
<p>Edit- Seems like the blog has been terminated. That’s unfortunate.</p>
<p>Here are the Georgetown stats for early action:</p>
<p>OVERALL:
Applied: 6,734
Admitted: 955 (14%)</p>
<p>College:
Applied: 3,733
Admitted: 493 (13%)</p>
<p>Foreign Service:
Applied: 1,358
Admitted: 214 (16%)</p>
<p>Business:
Applied: 1,172
Admitted: 171 (15%)</p>
<p>Nursing & Health Studies:
Applied: 471
Admitted: 77 (14%)</p>