Early applicants will be notified that their application has been accepted, denied, or waitlisted by late February or early March.
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.
More than 74percentt of U.S. colleges with early-application options reported an increase in demand for them, and early applicants were filling larger portions of incoming classes, according to a national survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling conducted in 2009, the most recent data available.
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 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.
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.
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.
If an early applicant is deferred to the regular admission round, new test records can be considered, admission officers announced on the university's Web site.
One early applicant, McDonald told me, was a family of four confined to a couple of rooms because they needed another $80,000 to finish fixing the rest of their house.
Applications for the GSDP Certificate Program will be considered on an ongoing basis with priority consideration given to earlier applicants.
