<p>Stanford has seen an 18% increase in the number of early applicants this year.</p>
<p>Just another reason for us to all smile and jump around in happy circles of joy and wonder. [For clarification: Sarcasm was used in this sentence...]</p>
<p>no, that means a smaller percentage will be accepted this year and there will be more competition to get in.</p>
<p>I know...</p>
<p>I guess my sarcasm didn't come across on my first post. Heh.</p>
<p>damn.....18% is really high</p>
<p>This makes me sad :(</p>
<p>Pssssh. We'll be fine. If you were really good enough to get in without the 18% increase, they aren't going to reject you because of numbers. Maybe with a deference, but it's not as bad as it sounds.</p>
<p>either way, it doesn't sound too good. Any chance they'll just accept more people instead?</p>
<p>It depends on whether they want to admit a greater number of early applicants in comparison to the regular applicants. Obviously the University has limited resources (classes, housing, dining, etc.) so they can't make the freshman class too large.
They have probably worked with the freshman class size and decided whether to admit more early applicants than usual.</p>
<p>Dante, if they accept people at the same rate they will indeed by admitting more people. Who knows :P</p>
<p>Could that end up with a bit higher ratio of acceptance from EA as well?
Just want to make everyone feel better :)</p>
<p>i want to get my hopes up! but then again i'm afraid of being really really dissapointed on monday</p>
<p>Joy! More bad news comes at a time when I could use all the good news I can get.</p>
<p>Stanford's most definitely not accepting more people this year. For the past few years, it's overenrolled--in fact, at least one of the housing complexes (Wilbur) is going to be converted to an all-frosh complex. Someone in the admissions office had said in a Daily article that they can't afford to overenroll again.</p>
<p>Since SCEA admits have a much higher yield and since the yield has been the problem (a little too high), I doubt SCEA admits will go up much if at all (more likely they'll go down).</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> that's some depressing news right there</p>