<p>From North by Northwestern, 1/9/08:</p>
<p>NU gets more ED apps, takes slightly fewer students
By Tom Giratikanon</p>
<p>NUs early decision applications rose 16.9 percent this year to 1,531, from 1,310 last year, according to the admissions office. </p>
<p>Northwestern took 561 students early for the Class of 2012, six fewer than before, pushing the ED acceptance rate down to about 37 percent.</p>
<p>clever allusion</p>
<p>I'm surprised they took fewer. They took more last year when the application numbers increased.</p>
<p>Well, I think it's deceiving in that they took a very similar number to last year, except the percentage went down. It doesn't surprise me especially when a lot of these schools are going to get a lot of applications this year. With the whole Harvard and Princeton thing, I think students are applying to a lot more schools and therefore the schools are going to get a lot more applications. There's gonna be a lot of decisions to be made.</p>