Tulane posted that their ED applications went up by 29% over last year. For Tulane I think people seem to be realizing that ED really does help you maybe more than at other schools. I have not read whether EA numbers changed much.
Harvard REA apps down 7.7%
Emory EDI apps down around 5%.
Columbia seems to have received the exact same number of ED apps as last year, wondering if their blog maybe has a typo.
I wonder if more students are realizing more and more that those tippy top schools just accept so very few, with so many strong candidates, that they are using their ED down a level? The rejections of so many strong students seems to have left people flabbergasted in the last several years; perhaps the advice has changed.
Could it be the Year of the Dragon thing? (Babies born in the year 2000, two-thirds of whom are class of 2022 and one-third class of 2023)
For what it’s worth, our high school college counselor told us that Duke & Penn attract a lot of the same applicants.
I forgot where I read it but the top 20-40 schools like Georgia Tech are receiving a significantly higher number of applicants. This might be a part of the reason: students feeling unconfident about applying to the top 10 schools seeing such a consistent upward trend in the number of applicants. On a completely unrelated note, good luck everyone… Results coming out in less than 24 hours!
Cornell’s ED applications actually increased 7.4% this year to 6,615, an all-time high.
And the meta results are out
http://www.page217.org/class-of-2024-early-decision-program/
With half of the class already filled ED/EA, a big number reserved for Quest bridge, international, Legacy etc., unhooked academic scholars have little chance getting in RD.
hmm pretty sure Questbridge and legacy are part of ED admits… therefore half the class will still be filled RD.
So Dartmouth’s apps down too; however, they cleverly spin it as the third largest application pool in the school’s history.
https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2019/12/acceptances-offered-early-decision-group
Last year Dartmouth received 2,474 ED apps. This year it was 2,069. My math isn’t the greatest, but that looks like a a decline of more than 16%.
^ 2474 - 2069 = 405. 405/2474 = 16%
Two years ago (class of 2022), Dartmouth received 2270 ED apps, which is 201 more than it received this year. That’s a decline of nearly 9%. Don’t you love how they spin it as “over 2000 ED apps for the third year in a row!”