<p>The numbers for the Class of 2011 early admission are slowly trickling in. </p>
<p>Despite the announcement by Harvard, Princeton, and UVA to abandon their early admissions, many schools reported record increases. However, not every school fared well: Duke seemed to have suffered considerably from the bad publicity generated by the egregious behavior of its athletes, if not from a long overdue realignment in the USNews rankings. With fewer than 1200 applicants, Duke is one of the few selective schools that could not fill its targeted freshman class through early applications. On the other hand, the same realignment at USNews seemed to have helped Chicago record a substantial increase. </p>
<p>HARVARD
Harvard, whose undergraduate college is the oldest higher- education institution in the U.S., will notify about 875 students today, or 22 percent of the 4,008 who applied early, that they've been accepted for the next academic year. That compares with 813, or 21 percent, accepted from 3,869 early applications in 2005, said Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons. That is a 3.5 percent increase over last year.
The early applicants who accept the offer will make up about 47 percent of the incoming class of 1,675, Fitzsimmons said. Harvard, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is eliminating the early admission program next year to attract more lower-income and minority students and to give applicants more time to compare financial aid packages</p>
<p>PRINCETON
Early Decision applications rose to the second-highest total since binding early admissions began more than a decade ago, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said yesterday. This is the last year of the University's early decision program.</p>
<p>The Admission Office has received 2,275 early applications for the Class of 2011, two percent more than the number of applications received last year and just short of the record 2,350 applications received in 2002 for the Class of 2007</p>
<p>YALE
The number dropped 13 percent at Yale University.</p>
<p>STANFORD
The number of early applications rose 5 percent at Stanford University.</p>
<p>MIT
The number of early applications rose 13% at MIT. </p>
<p>COLUMBIA
A record total of 2,428 students applied to Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science under Columbia's early decision program this year-an 8 percent increase over last year's figures. Of this year's early decision applicants, 24.4 percent were admitted, down from 26 percent in 2005.</p>
<p>PENN
The number dropped 2.5 percent at Penn.</p>
<p>DUKE
Duke's admit rate jumped from 31% to 39%, as application tumbled 20% from last year's number. </p>
<p>This year, 1,198 seniors applied for admission and 469 were admitted under Dukes Early Decision program -- those students who know they want to attend Duke and commit to enroll at the university if they receive an offer of admission. The 1,198 applications received this year represent a decline from last years record of 1,496 applicants.</p>
<p>CHICAGO
The number of early applications rose 9%. </p>
<p>UVA
"U.Va. received 2,410 early decision applications this fall, compared with 2,311 a year ago. Over the past six years, the number of early decision applications has averaged 2,369. In addition to admitting 973 or 40 percent of the applicants, 1,131 students had their decisions deferred so that they will be part of the regular decision process; 306 students were denied admission.</p>