Early admittance rate drops to a record low
The news of this year’s record-high number of early applicants to Yale was followed by the announcement of a record-low early acceptance rate.
Yale admitted 13.4 percent of early action applicants to the class of 2013, a sharp drop from last year’s 18.1 percent early admission rate. A total of 742 early applicants were granted admission from a record pool of 5,557, Dean of Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said. The admissions office significantly increased the number of students rejected rather than deferred in the early round, a shift that garnered unanimous approval from a dozen...
