Early Decision applications rose to the second-highest total since binding early admissions began more than a decade ago, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said yesterday. This is the last year of the University's early decision program.
The Admission Office has received 2,275 early applications for the Class of 2011, two percent more than the number of applications received last year and just short of the record 2,350 applications received in 2002 for the Class of 2007.
The University received 2,236 early applications for the current freshman class, 2,039 for the sophomore class and 1,815 for the junior class.
Further details on the profile of the applicant class will be available in mid-December, when early applicants will be notified of their acceptance, deferral or rejection. Last year, 27 percent of early applicants were admitted, compared to 7.8 percent of regular applicants.
Under the University's Early Decision program, accepted students are required to matriculate should they be accepted. Princeton is the only school among Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT with an Early Decision program. Each of the other schools has a single-choice Early Action program, which is non-binding but like Early Decision, allows a student to apply to only one school.
Following two years of discussion with Rapelye, the University Board of Trustees voted in September to end Early Decision after this year's admission cycle, less than a week after Harvard announced it was dropping its non-binding Early Action program.
Elite universities have come under fire for adding inequality and pressure to the college admissions process with early admissions programs.
"I think it will make the admissions process far more fair and equitable," President Tilghman said in September. "Early Decision was advantaging those who were already advantaged."
Yale received 3,541 Early Action applications for the Class of 2011, a 13 percent drop from a high of 4,084 early applications last year, The Yale Daily News reported last week. Other Ivies have not yet released their early application statistics.
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