<p>For perspective: Penn claims (and I believe it) that it receives more ED applications than any other college. I don’t think any other college gets as many as 3,000 ED apps, although Brown and Columbia may be close to that. With Duke’s big increase this year, it went from 42% of Penn’s applications to 53%. Yawn. We can probably all accept the idea that Duke is at least half as attractive as Penn.</p>
<p>EA colleges generally get a lot more early applications, because EA is not binding on the student.</p>