<p>do you think the percentage of ED admitted will increase with the student body increase or will they save those slots for regular?</p>
<p>I am wondering the same exact thing.</p>
<p>even if # admitted ED increases, % won't, because more ppl are applying</p>
<p>How do you know more people are applying?</p>
<p>princeton's #1 ranking encouraged many who would otherwise not have applied to apply ed
also, the sheer increase of the roster this year would give you some indication</p>
<p>Ed applicants increased 2%. IF the class size increased by say 500, that is more than a 2% increase, more like 10 or so. But who knows what is going on.</p>
<p>the # of applicants went up by 2% ... there's a thread here about it buried beneath the other threads somewhere</p>
<p>class size increase of 125
how do you know ED applicants increased 2%?</p>
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<p>Do you mean they are increasing the class size by 125?</p>
<p>by 125 students, which is about 10%. Therefore, if everything is independent and they increase ED admits by an equal percentage, we should be in good shape.</p>
<p>the eventual increase in class size is, in fact, in the range of 125 students, but the increase is being phased in gradually, over several classes, starting several years ago. so any increase in this particular year will be modest, probably no greater than 50 students. and while this alone would still be good news for this year's ED'ers, the number of students taken may well end up static, or even lower, as the admissions office prepares for life without ED starting next fall.</p>
<p>last year of ED probably means Princeton will have a large jump in the number of applicants...</p>
<p>Why would Princeton ending its early decision plan next year have any affect on the number of early applicants this year?</p>
<p>becuase they may be trying to phase out ed by taking less applicants this year</p>
<p>well I'm just conjecturing, but I can think of a few possibilities...
first, it makes ED seem like a fleeting opportunity. "omg next year's applicants can't take advantage of this! I must take advantage of it"
I imagine that some hardcore Princeton lovers (who are Juniors) would be upset about this ED being taken away. They would encourage seniors to apply ED.</p>
<p>but more likely, ending ED gives Princeton more publicity, so more potential applicants will realize that they can ED Princeton. some may not even know that ED exists (from the less competitive areas of the country)...but it's specifically those underpriveleged areas that schools look for talent...so they can be formidable applicants, taking into consideration that colleges will be more lenient with them
perhaps some students who weren't sure about ED, would decide to throw their application at Princeton ED, just because it's the last year.<br>
Remember that there are probably 10^5 or 10^6 college applicants....but a "significant" increase in the ED pool can be as little as 10^2 or 10^3 degrees of magnitude. a little bit of publicity among millions of students can certainly yield 100-1000 additional applicants, or more</p>
<p>Explain your reasoning behind the "phasing out", please. I don't really see how taking more or fewer ED applicants for 2011 is going to affect the student body much.</p>
<p>Also, as stated, the ED % increase was very small - around 2 ~ 3%. This would mean that about 50 more people applied this year.</p>
<p>Guys, read the link first! There are 2275 applicants under ED for the class of 2011. If 620 people are accepted ED (the max, I think), expect an admissions rate of a little over 27%.</p>
<p>well, that's still better than the RD rate!!</p>
<p>lol
I'm embarassed -_-;;</p>
<p>I'll go back to my calc homework now...instead of multitasking =/</p>