<p>Claremont McKenna had more ED applicants than ever this year (so many that they decide to do away with the deferring process.)</p>
<p>Here is an article from Princeton’s website about today’s decisions…</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - Princeton offers early-action admission to 714 students for Class of 2018](<a href=“Princeton offers early-action admission to 714 students for Class of 2018”>Princeton offers early-action admission to 714 students for Class of 2018)</p>
<p>They took 18.5% of the early applicants. 714 out of 3854…</p>
<p>OP - sorry I derailed your thread earlier with my personal observation and commentary. </p>
<p>To bring it back to focus:</p>
<p>Yale early information
[735</a> admitted early | Cross Campus](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2013/12/16/735-admitted-early/]735”>735 admitted early - Yale Daily News)</p>
<p>Another article on Princeton with specifics on rejected (49 applicants) and deferred (3042 applicants)</p>
<p>[714</a> students, or 18.5 percent, offered early admission in third year of U.?s early action program - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2013/12/714-students-or-18-5-percent-offered-early-admission-in-third-year-of-u-s-early-action-program/]714”>http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2013/12/714-students-or-18-5-percent-offered-early-admission-in-third-year-of-u-s-early-action-program/)</p>
<p>Penn:</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Early decision admission rate increases by less than one percent](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/12/penn_early_decision_acceptance_numbers]The”>Early decision admission rate increases by less than one percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>
<p>The Office of Admissions posted acceptance letters at 5 p.m. for 1,299 of the record 5,149 applicants. These students represent approximately 54 percent of the target class size of 2,420 students.</p>
<p>In an email I relieved from Northeastern, I was told they had 20,200 early action applications. They didn’t say how many were admitted</p>
<p>Cornell: </p>
<p>[Accepted</a> Early, First Members of Class of 2018 Express Joy | The Sun](<a href=“http://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/12/19/accepted-early-first-members-of-class-of-2018-express-joy/]Accepted”>Accepted Early, First Members of Class of 2018 Express Joy | The Cornell Daily Sun)</p>
<p>13.6% increase in # of apps and acceptance rate declined by two points to 27.7%.</p>
<p>1,325 out of 4,775 early decision applicants were accepted</p>
<p>The summary table with updates for Georgetown, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Cornell is below:</p>
<p>Non-Binding Early Action Colleges
MIT – 8.9%, 6820 applicants (up 12%)
University of Chicago – ?%, 11,143 applicants (up 7%)
Georgetown – 14.2%, 6,734 applicants (down 2%)
WPI – ?%, ~3600 applicants
University of Georgia, ~62%, >12,000 applicants</p>
<p>Single Choice Early Action Colleges
Stanford – 10.8%, 6,948 applicants (up 14%)
Yale – 15.5%, 4,750 applicants (up 6%)
Princeton – 18.5%, 3854 applicants (up 1%)
Harvard – 21.1%, 4,692 applicants (down 3%)</p>
<p>Binding Early Decision Colleges
Columbia – ?%, 3,298 applicants (up 5%)
Brown – 18.9%, 3,088 applicants (up 2%)
Duke – 25.1%, 3,180 applicants (up 25%)
University of Pennsylvania – 25.2%, 5,149 applicants (up 7%)
Cornell – 27.7%, 4,775 applicants (up 14%)
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>Also Dartmouth is up 6%, not down 2%</p>
<p>Not official, but when my D’s UChicago interviewer called to congratulate her, he told her they admitted 1300 in the EA round. 1300/11,143 = 11.7%. Last year, I think UChicago’s admit rate was around 9%, so the EA rate is slightly higher.</p>
<p>According to current Columbia students, a little over 700 students were admitted ED. Other, less reliable sources peg that number around 650. Either way, there was a sharp increase in the number of students accepted early this year, so I would estimate the admit rate to be about 700/3298 = 21.2%.</p>
<p>So I’d expect Columbia’s ED admit rate to be between 21% and 22%</p>
<p>Ea
Cwru 8900 ea applicants
Northeastern 20900 ea applicants</p>
<p>Georgia tech has also had a big jump.
I think this is the first common app year</p>
<p>A lot of people looked at cwru and nu as safeties or matches, and were very disappointed.</p>
<p>Both schools appeal to people with high stats and low need, so they fill a niche.</p>
<p>Colgate ED applications up 9% - admitted 246 out of 508 students in ED1</p>
<p>[Colgate</a> sees increase in Early Decision applications](<a href=“http://news.colgate.edu/2013/12/colgate-sees-increase-in-early-decision-applications.html]Colgate”>Colgate sees increase in Early Decision applications | Colgate University)</p>
<p>I know that Bates College had a slight increase in EDI applicants and accepted 150. 50% of the remaining were deferred and the other 50% were rejected. No official information has been released yet, but these are the numbers given to me by my guidance counselor and college counselor, both of whom have connections at Bates. They locked down mainly minority groups and a lot of their athletes.</p>
<p>Interesting, seems like reporting activity (# of colleges reporting) is slightly down from this time last year. In addition to what appears to be fewer colleges touting their growth (perhaps because its not a good PR story), the annual NYT early apps listing doesn’t appear out yet (late December last year.) Wonder if the frenzied apps boom we’ve seen over the last few years is beginning to subside?</p>
<p>Some others (+ sources & some calcs)…</p>
<p>Middlebury down 2%
[Middlebury</a> Accepts 287 Early Decision Applicants | Middlebury](<a href=“Middlebury News and Announcements”>Middlebury News and Announcements)
[xiggi, you might appreciate this- went to check last year’s ED numbers for Middlebury, and it appears (from memory) their Intuitional Research info, including latest year’s CDS’s, has been cut back]</p>
<p>Williams down 5%
2018 (554 ED apps): [Williams</a> College Admits 237 to Class of 2018 in Early Decision Plan | Office of Communications](<a href=“http://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/12_13_2013_earlydecision/]Williams”>http://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/12_13_2013_earlydecision/)
2017 (584 ED apps): [College</a> receives 584 ED apps for Class of 2017 ? The Williams Record](<a href=“http://williamsrecord.com/2012/12/05/college-receives-584-ed-apps-for-class-of-2017/]College”>http://williamsrecord.com/2012/12/05/college-receives-584-ed-apps-for-class-of-2017/)</p>
<p>Dartmouth up 6.6%
2018 (1678 ED apps): [Dartmouth</a> Accepts 469 Early Decision Applicants | Dartmouth Now](<a href=“http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/12/dartmouth-accepts-469-early-decision-applicants/]Dartmouth”>http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/12/dartmouth-accepts-469-early-decision-applicants/)
2017 (1574 ED apps): <a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
[please note that the aforementioned 2% decline was of Dartmouth’s ED admit rate, not applications growth.]</p>
<p>Georgetown down 1.7%
2018 (6734 EA apps): <a href=“http://www.thehoya.com/early-admissions-rate-remains-stable-1.3129218#.UsrrZ6Mo4dU[/url]”>http://www.thehoya.com/early-admissions-rate-remains-stable-1.3129218#.UsrrZ6Mo4dU</a>
2017 (6851 EA apps): <a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
<p>Case Western up 50% (hmmm)
2018 (8872 EA apps): [Early</a> Action applications up 50 percent over last year | the daily](<a href=“http://cwru-daily.com/news/early-action-applications-increase-50-percent-over-last-year/]Early”>http://cwru-daily.com/news/early-action-applications-increase-50-percent-over-last-year/)
2017 (5900 EA apps): <a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
<p>NYT dropped The Choice blog at the end of last school year. That leaves a huge hole where information like this was previously available. Thanks to xiggi for starting this thread to try to fill the void. But, without a reporter working on the story and contacting schools directly, there will certainly be less information publicly available this year about early numbers.</p>
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<p>This is really not surprising. Although it is unfortunate as all schools could benefit from an heightened transparency. I never understood why the BASIC data points have to be on a FYEO. It is really too bad.</p>
<p>As described above, TheChoice is indeed no more. First Jacques left for greener pastures and then the remaining staff cut their losses. It is also a shame because it was obvious that many schools seemed willing to “play ball” with a known media giant such as the NY Times. We are back at scouting the students’ paper and occasional press releases for scraps of information. And, unfortunately, cold calling for the same information TheChoice was getting is … simply not working. </p>
<p>All one needs to look at the example of Chicago. There is a very active CollegeRep on College Confidential who was a member well before starting as an adcom. She posts tons of helpful material, does her bit to increase the recruiting and the marketing, but simply will remain totally silent about the simplest statistics of number of admitted students. </p>
<p>Please tell me that this is not part of a systemic obfuscation by the higher-ups. Of course, it is harsh to single out Chicago when schools such as Columbia have elevated the misinformation to an art form. </p>
<p>Perhaps it will be better in April and May! ;)</p>
<p>this Pomona blog blurb is not exactly straight forward with respect to reporting actual ED1 application numbers (& the growth is surprising):
[…and</a> Visions of Early Decision Danced in Their Heads - Pomona College](<a href=“http://pomona.edu/admissions/blog/posts/12-23-13-ED1.aspx]...and”>http://pomona.edu/admissions/blog/posts/12-23-13-ED1.aspx)</p>
<p>Hence, Pomona ED1 up 44%</p>
<p>My estimate: 429 ED1 applicants, 21.9% admit rate, further discussed here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pomona-college/1602586-early-decision-acceptance-rate.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pomona-college/1602586-early-decision-acceptance-rate.html</a></p>
<p>The summary table with updates for Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Columbia, Colgate, Middlebury, Williams, Case Western, and Pomona is below:</p>
<p>Non-Binding Early Action Colleges
MIT – 8.9%, 6820 applicants (up 12%)
University of Chicago – ~12%*, 11,143 applicants (up 7%)
Georgetown – 14.2%, 6,734 applicants (down 2%)
Case Western – ?%, 8,872 (up 50%)
University of Georgia, ~62%, >12,000 applicants</p>
<p>Single Choice Early Action Colleges
Stanford – 10.8%, 6,948 applicants (up 14%)
Yale – 15.5%, 4,750 applicants (up 6%)
Princeton – 18.5%, 3854 applicants (up 1%)
Harvard – 21.1%, 4,692 applicants (down 3%)</p>
<p>Binding Early Decision Colleges
Brown – 18.9%, 3,088 applicants (up 2%)
Columbia – ~21%<em>, 3,298 applicants (up 5%)
Pomona – ~22%</em>, 429 applicants (up 44%)
Duke – 25.1%, 3,180 applicants (up 25%)
University of Pennsylvania – 25.2%, 5,149 applicants (up 7%)
Cornell – 27.7%, 4,775 applicants (up 14%)
Dartmouth – 27.9%, 1,678 applicants (up 6%)
Northwestern – 32.3%, 2,863 applicants (up 15%)
John Hopkins – 33.0%, 1,595 applicants (up 11%)
William and Mary – ?%, >1200 applicants
Middlebury – 41.8%, 686 applicants (down 2%)
Williams – 42.8%, 554 applicants (down 5%)
Colgate – 48%, 508 applicants (up 9%)
Boston University – ?%, 1,742 applicants (up 15%) </p>
<p>*Estimated</p>
<p>The fact that Stanford accepted a lower percentage of applicants in the early cycle does not mean that Stanford is attracting stronger applicants than Harvard.</p>
<p>Stanford choses to take very few applicants in the early cycle and will eventually end up accepting 8% or 9% of all applicants for the class of 2018. Harvard will accept 6% or 7% of all applicants and its class of 2018 will have higher median SAT scores than Stanford.</p>
<p>Clearly though, applying early provides an advantage at Harvard, Duke, Penn, Cornell and Johns Hopkins compared with applying regular decision.</p>
<p>The applicant group for Early Decision at those schools is of very high quality, but it is a much smaller group than regular decision, providing much better odds of being accepted.</p>
<p>
This isn’t the appropriate thread to have such a discussion, but I’ll reply anyway. To begin with, your numbers are ridiculous. Last year Stanford and Harvard had a similar overall acceptance rate of 5.7% and 5.8% respectively. This year Stanford had 14% more early applications, so all signs point to a lower acceptance rate than 5.7%, but you think it is going to increase to 8-9%? </p>
<p>Regarding SAT scores, Stanford has a reputation for focusing less on scores than HYP and more on things like achievements outside of the classroom, passions, intellectual vitality, potential to make an impact on the college/world, etc. This is reflected in slightly lower median scores than HYP. This does not mean they have a weaker application pool, it means they have a different admissions criteria. Similarly I expect the differences in REA acceptance rates for the two schools listed above are primarily dictated by differences in number of applicants and differences in college policy, rather than large differences in applicant strength.</p>