Harvard announced today that it admitted 895 applicants to the Class of 2024 under restrictive early action.  

A total of 6,424 early applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 13.9 percent. 

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Princeton University admitted 791 single choice early action applicants to the Class of 2024.  

Total applications and resulting admission rate were not reported.

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Brown accepted 800 applicants to the Class of 2024 under early decision.  

Early decision applications totaled 4,452 this year, up 8 percent and resulting in an early admission rate of 17.5 percent.

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The University of Virginia announced today that it admitted 749 early decision applicants to the Class of 2024.  

A total of 2,157 early decision applications were received, resulting in an overall early admission rate of 35 percent.  The acceptances are expected to represent 20 percent of the targeted class size of 3,748 studenets.  

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The University of Georgia offered 7,025 early action applicants to the Class of 2024.

16,511 applications were received, resulting in an admit rate of 43 percent.  

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In Part II of this series developed an early admission strategy based on your competitiveness as an applicant, your college list, and your strength of commitment to the top schools on your list.  If you're a competitive applicant with strong qualifications, we recommend that you:

• Take full advantage of Early Action for all the schools on your list

• Apply Restrictive Early Action to your top school or when the restrictions don't inhibit your ability to take advantage of early admission programs at higher ranked schools 

• Apply Early Decision I when you are strongly committed to attending your top choice school and have no concerns about affordability

• Apply Early Decision II if you have been denied admission to your top choice school, you're strongly committed to attending this ED II school as your next best option, and have no concerns about affordability

With this early admission strategy in place, let's put it to work in Part III against a couple of hypothetical applicants.   

In Part I of this series we covered the fundamentals of college early admission programs.  We learned that:

• Colleges offer early admission programs to manage yield, lock up prized applicants and improve prestige in the process

• There can be as much as a 2-4x difference in admit rates between early and regular decision applicants

• Because there is often a high proportion of an enrolled class coming through early admission, your chances of getting in via regular decision are actually worse than you might think

In short, you should always consider early admission programs as part of your college plan.  But under what conditions does it make sense and how do you apply it against your list of schools?  This is the topic for Part II.  

Simply put, early admission should always be considered as part of your college plan.

Why?  Because early action and early decision programs can be tremendously useful in helping a competitive candidate enhance admission odds.  By submitting your application early, you'll hear back earlier and in most instances improve your chances for admission.  Better yet, if you're accepted early, you'll be able to avoid the cost and effort of applying to schools of lower interest on your list.

In this three part series, we'll explore the fundamentals, when/how to take advantage of them, and where early admission is offered.  Read on for Part I.

Most schools have completed their updates for the Class of 2024 admission cycle (2019-20), and several of the changes we've observed are worth noting. 

In particular, 16 schools have modified early admission options available to applicants this fall.  Notable changes include the replacement of Early Action for Early Decision I/II at Boston College, the introduction of a new Early Decision I option at Howard University and the University of Virginia, and a new Early Action option at Union College.

If you're considering early admission, be sure to check out our list as it may impact how you decide to apply this fall.   Note to our subscribers: the data has already been incorporated into the product, simply re-run College Kickstart to see how it impacts your plan.

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Here's our updated list of reported early decision and early action admission rates for the Class of 2023.

This list includes results from Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Middlebury, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Princeton, Rice, University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Washington University in St. Louis and Yale, along with partial data from Barnard, Bowdoin, Columbia, Grinnell, NYU, Trinity College, Tufts and the University of Miami.  While Stanford has released decisions, results will not be released.

Bookmark this page, as we'll be updating it frequently over the next several weeks.

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The University of Virginia announced today that it admitted 6,550 early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

A total of 25,126 early action applications were received, up 17 percent from the previous year, resulting in an overall early admission rate of 26 percent.  While the in-state admission rate was not reported, 19.3 percent of out-of-state applicants were admitted.  

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Here's our updated list of early decision and early action dates for the Class of 2023.  As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here where available, as well as last year's notification dates for reference.   

Good luck, seniors!

Boston College announced that beginning with the Class of 2024, it will replace early action with early decision I and II options.    

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Georgia Tech announced today that it admitted 4,000 early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

Early action applications grew 12 percent to 20,289, resulting in an early action admission rate of 20 percent—40 percent for residents and 14 percent for non-residents.

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Rice University admitted 408 early decision applicants to the Class of 2023.  

Early decision applications rose 39 percent to 2,628, resulting in an admission rate of 15.5 percent.

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