<p>Some of the top private schools (Penn, Columbia, Harvard,Yale & Duke) have announced the # of ED applicants. For the most part, there has been a significant increase in # of applications.</p>
<p>Not surprising. It gets more popular every year. I think a big reason is Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Duke, and a lot of other hard privates are all on the commapp. :D</p>
<p>I wonder if the next level of privates will also see an increase in ED.</p>
<p>Northwestern, WUSTL, Emory, etc....l</p>
<p>Well I was quite shocked at Penn's 21% jump! That's crazy. I expect Northwestern at least to have quite a jump! The fact that it's in the big 10 + this strange increase in ED could cause a big jump there too! I hope this doesn't reflect RD applications at these places! :eek:</p>
<p>Good thing Northwestern is not a commonapp school. Last year Northwestern had a small decrease in ED applicants. I hope it remains constant.</p>
<p>It's always hard to predict. Like who would've thought Harvard's Ed numbers would've gone down this year? :p</p>
<p>Besides the % of ED applicants increasing at top schools, I wonder if this class is just larger in general.</p>
<p>Well that can account for something, but really, I don't think it can account for that much. And any way you try to turn it, the class sizes won't go up just because applications do. :(</p>
<p>What do you think the jump is from?</p>
<p>Where can you find these numbers?</p>
<p>As the competition during RD gets more and more insane, people get the idea that they have to apply ED somewhere in order to be accepted anywhere. All a very bad thing. That's why Harvard, Yale and Stanford went to SCEA instead of ED.</p>
<p>(Don't apply ED anywhere if you also plan to apply for finan aid since it limits your ability to compare FA packages.)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if this surge is carrying over to the top Liberal Arts Colleges as well?</p>
<p>So far I heard, Williams and Swarthmore</p>
<p>Actually, to my knowledge, Harvard has seen a significant decline in EA applications for this year, only 3700 as compared to 4200 last year.</p>
<p>It is true that Harvard dropped but Columbia, Yale and Penn (21%) increased.</p>
<p>Apparently Cornell's had a big surge - a 7 day delay on applications processing.</p>
<p>could anyone tell me where this data is coming from. is there a link?</p>
<p>i would like to know where i can find this info as well :-)</p>
<p>Eh, you'll have to search around, I don't think there's a consolidated article where it is. LIke Penn's information is in today's daily pennsylvanian. :p</p>
<p>Just go to yahoo or google news articles about early applications or admissions. School newspaper articles will come up giving the percentages.</p>