<p>I applied to MIT EA (not Harvard), and apparently, this year, MIT admitted only 377 people through the EA round, amounting to a feeble 12% of applicants! Will Harvard and the other elite schools follow in this trend?</p>
<p>haha, I don't think so. The Ivys fill a large fraction of the class from the EA pool, therefore, I don't think this will be so.</p>
<p>Harvard may have record high EA rates this year with its 10 percent drop in applications.</p>
<p>Wasn't the drop only 5%?</p>
<p>pleaaaaaaaase be record high.</p>
<p>They were definitely lower this year than last year.</p>
<p>Rate could go down. Harvard can design its own admit rate.</p>
<p>nah man, im pretty sure theyre bound by what we speculate here on CC</p>
<p>It better be higher!</p>
<p>I agree with Spyder :p</p>
<p>Doesn't MIT's EA acceptance rate rate drop every year because they do not use single choice early action?</p>
<p>It's probably at least lower than SCEA and ED schools. Demonstrated interest is a very good thing, especially at schools like this...</p>
<p>I'm surprised Byerly hasn't chimed in yet, given his penchant for analyzing all the admissions numbers</p>
<p>according to byerly's number, the drop was around 10 percent. However, Harvard only came out with a very ambiguous "almost 4000" making the number seem like 5 percent</p>
<p>which thread has "byerly's number"?... i wasn't aware of that.</p>
<p>haha spydertennis</p>
<p>if we will it on cc, it must be so.</p>