Early action applications up 36 percent
Yale received 4,820 early applications this year for the class of 2012 — 36 percent more applications than last year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said Tuesday.
The surge in applications may be a reaction to decisions by Harvard and Princeton universities last year to discontinue their early-admission programs, which left high-achieving high-school students with fewer early options, admissions experts said, although Brenzel declined to attribute the increase to any one factor. Brenzel said it is too soon to know how many students Yale will accept and how the...
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