<p>“Good news”</p>
<p>Not really, except that it could have been worse (ED apps up instead of down).</p>
<p>If you figure that they want around 1200 acceptances, then out of 4000 applications (last year’s #) that would be exactly 30%. Out of this year’s pool (3929 applications) its 30.54%, for a whopping 1/2% increase in your chances (assuming that they just don’t adjust the admit rate down a little to compensate, which is also possible). So out of every 200 ED applicants, 140 would have been rejected last year and 139 rejected this year - big whoop.</p>