According to Fitzsimmons, the pool of early applicants is typica

“Traditionally, early programs have tended not to reflect the excellence and diversity that you see out in the world, so one of the real pushes over the past decade or so—and part of it was giving it up and then bringing it back—is to make certain that people from all of those backgrounds do consider early,” Fitzsimmons said. “We’re delighted to see that we had greater economic and ethnic diversity not just in the pool, but in the admitted group.”