Yale admits 13.9 percent of early applicants

Yale has a single-choice early action program, under which applicants may not apply early to any other schools but still have until the spring to accept or decline an offer of admission.

Applicants were notified online on Tuesday about whether they were admitted. Of those in the applicant pool, 35.5 percent were denied admission, while 50.2 percent were deferred to the regular decision round, according to the Yale Daily News.

“Our applicants continue to be an exceptionally talented, highly diverse group of students,” Yale’s dean of undergraduate admissions Jeff Brenzel said in an e-mail to the News. “As always, we only accepted students that we were certain we would also accept in the spring, meaning that a significant number of the deferred students have equally strong chances of admission as the regular decision applicants.”

Yale was the last school in the Ivy League to release its early admissions figures. Brown admitted 20 percent of its early applicants, and Columbia admitted 21 percent, while Dartmouth and Cornell admitted 28.8 percent and 32.6 percent of their early applicants, respectively. Harvard and Princeton decided in 2006 to stop admitting applicants early. Stanford admitted 13.5 percent of its early applicants this year.

Yale will notify the rest of its applicants of its admission decisions on April 1.