<p>"As of today, the admission office had received exactly 2,000 early decision applications for the Class of 2009. Though this figure is up from last year's 1,818 applications, it still falls below the all-time high of 2,350 early applications for the Class of 2007, two years ago."</p>
<p>Also says they may go over the 50% mark in ED. (They would admit over half of the class ED)</p>
<p>Me too. I read the article at school and started doing a happy dance. True, 2000 is a lot, but I was very pleased by Rapelye's comments about not having any hesitations about meeting or exceeding the 50% mark as far as class makeup goes. Tr</p>
<p>I think the acceptance rate is going to be around 30% this year. Not too shabby. Much better than the 24% acceptance rate two years ago, so I'm not really going to complain. :)</p>
<p>Amen to that! Although, I hope she likes artists (e.g. visual artists, dancers, writers, actors etc.) as much as she <em>says</em> she does. We'll have to wait and see.</p>