Early Applications up 11.5 %

Tim_ND08 · 11-17-2007, 09:52 PM

Found this in the observer.

Early action applications up 11.5 percent - News

""My projection is that we will come out of early action with an admitted group of students with higher academic records and extracurricular activities than ever before," Saracino said."

The article also talks about its hopes for a more racially, and socio-economically diverse class.

Good Luck to everyone who applied EA!

phonyreal98 · 11-17-2007, 10:44 PM

Ahhh man....this means that I don't have a chance of getting in EA....best I can hope for is deferred.

irish68178 · 11-18-2007, 01:37 AM

That is crazy, I really thought that they would go down with football. Good luck everyone, I wish you all the best. Overall it is a good thing, it will make ND that much better in the future, though I know now it isn't good news.

Mombot · 11-18-2007, 11:27 AM

Nope..it's the waterfall effect from the ridiculous admit numbers posted by the HYPS schools last year. Everybody who would only consider the top 10 USNWR schools is now picking some from the schools ranked 11-20 and is applying there as well. When schools like Harvard and Yale accept less than 10% of their applicants it prompts students to apply to more schools.

notre dame AL · 11-18-2007, 11:53 AM

Because Harvard and Princeton dropped their EA, schools like ND are now overflowing with apps. I would bet that a lot of these kids who now have to apply to these schools on a RD basis have applied to ND, and if they are indeed accepted to H or P, will not attend ND after all. It has indeed made it hard for people who really want to attend ND, and have no interest in H or P, to apply EA. To those of you that really do want to attend ND, hang in there! Perhaps your essays will show how truly passionate you are about ND and admissions will see it!

rohan2k6 · 11-18-2007, 03:56 PM

...or maybe a lot of hs students thought that the numbers would fall this year because of football, so they applied early thinking that they would have a better chance, but really that backfired and so applications rose ahaha whoops

flyboy · 11-18-2007, 04:02 PM

let's face it, it's easier than evr to apply to more colleges. I doubt it is just a the effect of low admit numbers at school like Harvard and Princeton. Everyone's application numbers are jumping as they did last year and as they have done since the common app became so polular. Do you really think kids would be applying to 10 or 12 schools if they had 1o or 12 completely different applications to do? Sure, most have a supplement but they are pretty easy to whip out if you have the comman app already done and it takes the click of the mouse.

phonyreal98 · 11-19-2007, 12:45 AM

Damned prestige whores who ruin the chances of people who actually WANT to go to ND. lol.

danbrenn · 11-19-2007, 01:05 AM

Maybe more people just want to go to ND? It seems like a trend.

phonyreal98 · 11-19-2007, 07:16 AM

By the way, Flyboy, ND is not a school that accepts commonapp.

Tim_ND08 · 11-19-2007, 06:40 PM

There are also many more kids graduating high school.

Every college is receiving more apps, but ND is being influenced by those TOP 10 schools who are canceling their ED programs.

Eagle79 · 11-21-2007, 03:43 PM

While it is great that the EA applications are up at ND 11.5%, there was a recent WSJ article (sorry no link) that listed a number of schools that were up quite a bit more. I believe that Georgetown and UChicago were up 25%-30%.

One thing to note is that these schools are open EA, not single choice EA or ED. It seems that the schools with the biggest jumps are those with an open EA policy like ND.

TheIndividual · 11-21-2007, 03:49 PM

yeah -- UChicago went up 42%, it sucks.

Eagle79 · 11-21-2007, 03:53 PM

As someone mentioned earlier it is easier to apply to more schools using the common application, however, ND & UChicago do not use the common application.

2 kids from my sons high school are now going to UChicago this year. I think they are the first two to go in the last 5-10 years.

BTW, here is a CC discussion of the WSJ article. Not the gross level numbers not just the percentage increases in the article.

WSJ: Early admission dominoes fall

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