<p>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%.</p>
<p>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.</p>