ED apps up 6%

[Cue7]

<p>Going on what tetrisfan said, yah, here’s the article about the increase at Brown: </p>

<p>[The</a> Brown Daily Herald - Early applicant pool grows for Class of 2014](<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/early-applicant-pool-grows-for-class-of-2014-1.2112435]The”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/early-applicant-pool-grows-for-class-of-2014-1.2112435)</p>

<p>I have no idea what happened at Brown. Maybe it’s the Emma Watson effect? Or it’s because last year, so few got in RD? Brown’s experienced RIDICULOUS application growth over the past few years without instituting any firm changes in its recruitment policies, from what I can tell. It sounds like Duke changed its message, Chicago adopted the common app and recruited much harder, etc. I have no idea what Brown’s doing, but it’s leading to what will be some crazy admissions numbers in Providence when all is said and done (maybe a 10% overall accept rate?).</p>

[Atypicalguy]

<p>Hey Alum boat, where is this penn selectivity thread? Link it to me, I wanna read</p>

[wtan]

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-the DP article said the amount of applicants increased mostly in mass. and florida. I know penn does not have official quotas but I am sure those regions are going to be drastically more selective than they usually are.

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<p>I’m from FL X_X</p>

[nirvanatear]

<p>I never really understood the Brown or Duke phenomena. Both are good schools, with solid academics and good social life, but neither is a leader in any academic field or produces leaders in a particular profession… I don’t see anyone, if not for a higher admission rate, would choose Brown or Duke over ANY OTHER university in the country, let along binding themselves to the school. </p>

<p>Here’s something interesting to read: [Confessions</a> of a Prep School College Counselor - The Atlantic (September 2001)](<a href=“http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/flanagan]Confessions”>Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor - The Atlantic)</p>

[lesdiablesbleus]

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@nirvanatear

I never really understood the Brown or Duke phenomena. Both are good schools, with solid academics and good social life, but neither is a leader in any academic field or produces leaders in a particular profession… I don’t see anyone, if not for a higher admission rate, would choose Brown or Duke over ANY OTHER university in the country, let along binding themselves to the school. </p>

<p>Here’s something interesting to read: Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor - The Atlantic (September 2001)

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read in my life. Brown and Duke has produced countless of leaders who operate in the upper echelons of business, politics, medicine, entertainment, sports, etc.</p>

<p><a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>http://wsjclassroom.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<h1>6 Duke: 8.61%</h1>

<h1>12 Brown: 6.51%</h1>

<h1>16 Penn: 5.49%</h1>

[IRJunkie]

<p>

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read in my life. Brown and Duke has produced countless of leaders who operate in the upper echelons of business, politics, medicine, entertainment, sports, etc.</p>

<p><a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights;

<h1>6 Duke: 8.61%</h1>

<h1>12 Brown: 6.51%</h1>

<h1>16 Penn: 5.49%

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<p>The methodology of the Wall Street Journal study is absolutely terrible, so I would encourage all that read it to take it with a grain of salt. However, I do agree that both Duke and Brown are fantastic schools, and I can certainly understand why either institution would be an applicant’s first choice.</p>

[eatsalot]

<p>I agree, as a duke student, that the wsj is somewhat flawed. But to claim that neither duke and brown are not worthy of being a first-choice institution is a little presumptous lol</p>

[interestingguy]

<p>

UPenn had an increase after a few years of stagnancy. Why did the increase occur? Is Furda just getting better?

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<p>Admissions deans tend to get too much credit or blame for application trends that are mostly beyond their control.</p>

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I don’t see anyone, if not for a higher admission rate, would choose Brown or Duke over ANY OTHER university in the country, let along binding themselves to the school.

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<p>The same could be said just about any school that offers ED, including Penn. The fact of the matter is, certain schools (need to) offer ED precisely because they are not “first choice” schools. In other words, they know that students are more likely to “bind themselves” (to maximize their admissions chances) than choose their schools in an open competition.</p>

<p>The only real “first choice” schools are HYPSM; that is why they don’t (need to) offer ED. </p>

<p>As an aside: it’s very interesting to me that the Dukies are so insecure that they need to defend their school in other forums. Just as interesting is that Brownies are secure enough that they don’t.</p>

[melin720]

<p><brown’s ed=“” applications=“” skyrocketed=“” by=“” 21%.=“”></brown’s></p>

<p>Brown used to have Early Action. They removed it.</p>

<p>I think a lot of students went reverse-psychology thinking that abolishing EA for ED would mean fewer applicants ED, but instead it backfired and the applicants went up sky-high.</p>

<p>If that’s true then it would be really funny.</p>