<p>confirmation on Georgetown EA +2%</p>
<p>Georgetown</a> University: Early Action Numbers See Slight Increase</p>
<p>fyi, an article on Questbridge and Penn....helps explain the process:
Penn</a> admits 26 QuestBridge applicants - News</p>
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The selected students, called National College Match Scholars, were among the 616 who passed a QuestBridge preliminary evaluation and indicated Penn as one of their top eight college choices, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda. </p>
<p>QuestBridge participants fill out an extensive application designed to showcase their achievements and highlight the economic obstacles they have overcome.</p>
<p>After indicating Penn as one of their top choices, 220 students proceeded to the next round of the application process by submitting the Common Application and Penn's supplement.</p>
<p>From that pool of applicants, the undergraduate admissions office identified 83 students "they were interested in," Furda said. </p>
<p>Student Financial Services determined that 31 of those applicants met Penn's College Match criteria, meaning they were financially eligible for a $52,000 per year scholarship</p>
<p>The award will cover tuition and other living expenses.</p>
<p>Penn granted admission to 26 of the 31 financially-eligible students.</p>
<p>The remaining 52 students the admissions office is considering will be placed in the regular decision pool unless they request otherwise. Five of those 52 students have already asked that their applications be submitted for early decision admission, Furda said.
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<p>ps....thank you Dean Furda for a new era of Penn transparency!</p>
<p>does anyone know any numbers for Scripps or Pitzer?</p>
<p>Dartmouth ED revised: up 9%
Dartmouth</a> News - Dartmouth admits 401 students through early decision - 12/11/08</p>
<p>(25.9% acceptance rate)</p>
<p>ED applications:</p>
<p>St. Olaf - Up 50%
George Washington University-Up 43%
Wesleyan - Up 36%
Claremont McKenna - Up 28%
Duke - Up 25%
Wake Forest - Up 22%
Pomona - Up 20%
Northwestern - Up 15 %
University of Richmond - Up 14%
Colby - Up 13%
Haverford - Up 13%
Middlebury - Up 12%
Dartmouth - Up 9%
Cornell – Up 9% (probably ED, but may be more)
Barnard – Up 8% (probably ED, but may be more)
Hamilton - Up 8%
Bowdoin - Up 7.9%
Union College - Up 7%
Amherst – Up 5% (probably ED, but may be more)
Occidental – Up 3.5%
NYU - Up 2.3%
Elon - Up 1%
Dickinson – flat
Johns Hopkins - <0.6>
Brown - <4.5>
Williams - <6.5> (as of 11/14)
UPENN - <8%>
Tufts - No Comment</p>
<p>MIT EA - Up 25%
Northeastern EA - Up 23%
Stanford EA - Up 18%
Yale EA - Up 10.4%
Georgetown - Up 2%
U Of Chicago EA - <15%></p>
<p>My sonand a lot of others were accepted ED to American University today. Does anyone know what their numbers were?</p>
<p>American ED +25%
American</a> Today - Staff Council reception well attended</p>
<p>Columbia U ED apps reported: Admissions</a> Sends Early Decision Packets to Record Pool of Applicants | Columbia Spectator</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the article does not provide an entire Columbia combined; here's what it says
the College: up 16%
SEAS: up 20%</p>
<p>Based upon Columbia's faqs reporting the College at 4100 undergrads and SEAS at 1300, the College has ~75% and SEAS ~25% of undergrads......hence, weighting the ED app percentages accordingly, I calculate:</p>
<p>Columbia ED +17%</p>
<p>my estimate for a revised Middlebury: ~<5%> vs the +12% reported before
please see this thread for an explanation: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/middlebury-college/614389-midd-13-ed1-stats.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/middlebury-college/614389-midd-13-ed1-stats.html</a></p>
<p>in essense, the ED1 stats reported by Midd on their "welcome to Middlebury" page for ED acceptees, shows a ED app number of 660, less than the ~700 reported for ED1 last year. The article cited earlier on this thread apparently reported an interim count at a date prior to ED closing,.....instead of apps growing, it appears that apps shrunk.</p>
<p>Thanks, Papa Chicken</p>
<p>I've been following this thread hoping for some insights and explanations. I wonder if anyone can explain why so many students are applying ED when they are bound by the decisions and will need to pay hefty tuitions if admitted. My daughter, a current junior, attends a school that does not permit students to apply early unless they have very high GPAs and top SAT scores. I wonder if she'll be at a big disadvantage next year, applying RD for fewer openings if this trend holds next fall.</p>
<p>onceburnt: I think social anxiety is contagious and that is one of the driving factors. But for any single case, I think the important thing is just whether a kid has a single and appropriate first choice. It seems to me that your child's school probably doesn't want students/parents disappointed or choosing prematurely and they are trying to control for that--but a kid with B+ grades and mid-range ACT/SATs who chose a school where those were acceptable (and there are a lot of them!) should not be denied the relief of getting in where they want to go in December--if the finances are fine.</p>
<p>^^ onceburnt,
I think it's mainly a "flight to quality." In a bad economy sending your kid to an elite school looks like a safer investment than letting her go to a weaker school. My guess is more people than ever are applying to the elite schools, and more are applying ED because they see stats that tell them it gives them an edge in admissions. On the other hand a lot of lower and middle-income families are wary of ED because they can't afford to pay if the FA package come in below their expectations. What it means, I think, is a lot of full-pays applying ED at elite schools because it looks like a safe investment, and colleges being able to fill a larger percentage of their class with highly qualified ED applicants, many of them full-pays---especially attractive to the colleges right now, because their budgets are going to be stretched by rising demand for FA, falling endowments, and falling annual giving. Bottom line, I do think it disadvantages kids who are unable to apply ED, whether for bureaucratic reasons (like your D) or out of financial prudence.</p>
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I wonder if she'll be at a big disadvantage next year, applying RD for fewer openings if this trend holds next fall.
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<p>Just because ED applications go up, it doesn't necessarily mean that the school accepts more people on the ED round, leaving fewer acceptances for the RD round. </p>
<p>I was looking at the Stanford SCEA numbers--they seem to offer 30% of their total acceptances to those who apply in the early round, leaving 70% of the acceptances for the regular round. If the number of early applicants increases, it just means that more get rejected or deferred in the early round. Since Stanford isn't one to defer many, there are an increase in rejections. Thus the "Stanford Slaughter", as the kids are calling it this year.</p>
<p>So don't fret if your kid doesn't apply early.</p>
<p>^It was worst last year at my daughter's high school, almost all the kids that applied early got rejected and deferred, even the class valedictorian. Eventually only one URM kid got accepted. 2 years ago, they accept 8-10 kids from our high school. I think the Shaw guy does not like CA kids.</p>
<p>Duke ED apps up 23% (as compared to the 25% previously reported)
Duke</a> Accepts Nearly 550 Early Decision Applicants</p>
<p>Duke ED admit rate of 35.5%</p>
<p>Yale EA apps up 13.7% by my calculation (as compared to 10.4% previously reported)
Yale</a> Daily News - Early admit rate plunges to 13.4 percent</p>
<p>Also, as you can tell by the title of the Yale article, the admit rate dropped to a pretty darned low number.</p>
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It was worst last year at my daughter's high school, almost all the kids that applied early got rejected and deferred, even the class valedictorian.
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Similar situation at my kid's HS this year ... among the seniors about which my oldest knows ED/EA outcomes ... 5 acceptances (1 hook) - 50 deferrals - 3 rejects (or something like those numbers). Given these schools have overall acceptance rates in the 8-15% range this outcome for ED/EA applications is not really unexpected.</p>
<p>ED applications:</p>
<p>St. Olaf - Up 50%
George Washington University-Up 43%
Wesleyan - Up 36%
Claremont McKenna - Up 28%
American - Up 25%
Duke - Up 23%
Wake Forest - Up 22%
Pomona - Up 20%
Columbia - Up 17%
Northwestern - Up 15 %
University of Richmond - Up 14%
Colby - Up 13%
Haverford - Up 13%
Dartmouth - Up 9%
Cornell – Up 9% (probably ED, but may be more)
Barnard – Up 8% (probably ED, but may be more)
Hamilton - Up 8%
Bowdoin - Up 7.9%
Union College - Up 7%
Amherst – Up 5% (probably ED, but may be more)
Occidental – Up 3.5%
NYU - Up 2.3%
Elon - Up 1%
Dickinson – flat
Johns Hopkins - <0.6>
Brown - <4.5>
Middlebury - <5%>
Williams - <6.5> (as of 11/14)
UPENN - <8%>
Tufts - No Comment</p>
<p>MIT EA - Up 25%
Northeastern EA - Up 23%
Stanford EA - Up 18%
Yale EA - Up 13.7%
Georgetown - Up 2%
U Of Chicago EA - <15%></p>
<p>revised slightly</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins - <1.0%></p>
<p>JHU ED admit rate = 47%</p>
<p>Baltimore</a> College Prep Examiner: Less apply, more get in early at Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>College of Charleston Up 5% in Early Apps</p>
<p>The College of Charleston is seeing a record number of applications from the strongest and most diverse pool in the institution's history. The Early Notification deadline passed on November 1 with a nearly 5% increase in applications. The total number of applications received by the deadline was 6,541.</p>
<p>As of December 5, the number of applications rose to 8,288 - an increase of almost 10% over 2007's 7,558 applications as of the same date. At this pace, the College of Charleston is set to surpass last year's record number of applications (more than 11,400).</p>
<p>The number of both instate and out-of-state applications has increased over 2007. Instate applications are up 13%. The most significant instate gains are in Lexington, Richland, Florence, Spartanburg, York and Anderson Counties.</p>
<p>"Given the current economic recession, the College of Charleston is particularly appealing to students in-state," said Don Burkard, associate vice president for enrollment planning. "Students from the tri-county area realize that at the College you can stay local, yet live global among students from all 50 states and over 70 countries."</p>
<p>"Students can expect Early Notification decision letters to be mailed before December 22, as long as the student submitted their application and materials on time," said Jimmie Foster, Jr., director of freshman admissions.</p>