While it is too soon to know what impact the return of Harvard and Princeton to the early fray has had on other schools' applications — both institutions bar its early applicants from applying early to any other private college — a Princeton spokesman told The Choice Tuesday night that 3,547 students had applied by last week's deadline through its "single-choice early action" program.
Last year, Yale received nearly 15,500 applications for 1,300 places; it admitted 550 of 2,115 early applicants, or slightly more than 40percentt of its freshman class.
And Yale — which has a non-binding early program, but which requires that its early applicants apply to no other early programs — received nearly 300 fewer applications, a drop of 5percentt.
And Yale — which has a nonbinding early program, but which requires that its early applicants apply to no other early programs — received nearly 300 fewer applications, a drop of 5percentt.
However, since law school applications are reviewed and decided upon soon after they're submitted, early applicants face less competition.
Those readers of The Choice who have not yet waded into our running statistics on early admission applications for the 2011-2012 academic year can find a chart on application figures at more than 100 colleges here, and the percentages of early applicants accepted (and rejected) here.
Our admission process is not weighted toward early applicants.
This past year we admitted 726 students early from a pool of 3,443 early applicants.
Both universities, however, will bar early applicants from applying to other early admissions programs.
The response, at least at Princeton, was a flurry of early applicants.
