Harvard
Harvard accepted 895 applicants early from an applicant pool of 4,856. The
early applicant pool increased by nearly 15 percent. The early admit rate
was 18 percent.
Yale
Yale accepted 649 applicants early. The admit rate was 14.4 percent, compared
to 15.7 the previous year. 4,520 students applied early, compared to 4,323
the previous year, representing a 4.4 percent increase. 2,529 early applicants
were deferred, and 1,302 were denied admission.
Princeton
Princeton received 3,810 early applications, compared to 3,443 the previous
year, an increase of 10.7 percent. 679 applicants were offered early admission.
Of the remaining early applicants, 2,777 were deferred to the regular admission
applicant pool.
Princeton received a total of 26,505 applications for the Class of 2017,
a slight decrease from the previous year, when the University received 26,663
applicants.
Columbia
Columbia received 3,126 early decision applications for the class of 2017,
an increase of 1.3 percent compared to 3,086 from last year.
The number of overall applications to Columbia College and the School of
Engineering and Applied Science for the class of 2017 increased 5 percent
to 33,460, compared to 31,818 the previous year.
Cornell
To be announced
Dartmouth
Dartmouth accepted 464 applicants early. The early admit rate was 29.5 percent.
Dartmouth received 1,574 early applications, a 12.5 percent decrease from
the previous year. 550 early applicants were deferred and nearly 500 applicants
were denied admission. The mean SAT score of the admitted students was 2141.
Brown
Brown admitted 558 out of 3,010 early applicants. This represents an early
admit rate of 18.5 percent compared to 19 percent the previous year. 2,919
early applications were received the previous year. Approximately 10 percent
of the early applicants were rejected, and approximately 71 percent were
deferred.
15 students were admitted to the Program in Liberal Medical Education, accounting
for 3.9 percent out of a 385-member applicant pool. Brown usually admits
around 17 or 18 PLME students through early decision.
Students planning on majoring in the social sciences accounted for 30 percent
of those admitted, followed by 26 percent who indicated interest in the
physical sciences, 24 percent in life sciences and 17 percent in the humanities.
The remaining 3 percent were undecided.
University of Pennsylvania
UPenn admitted 1,196 applicants early. The 24.9 percent acceptance rate
represents a 0.5 percent decrease from the 25.4 percent admit rate last
year. 4,812 early applications were received. 1,000 applicants were deferred
and 2,616 applicants were rejected. UPenn has a target class size of 2,420.
MIT
To be announced
Stanford
Stanford offered early admission to 725 applicants, compared to 755 students
the previous year. 6,103 early applications were received, compared to 5,880
the previous year. The early admit rate was less than 12 percent. The admitted
students hail from 43 states and 28 countries. More than 70 percent have
a high school grade point average of 4.0 or higher. 572 applicants were deferred.