Harvard's Unofficial Early Admissions Process

xrCalico23
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:25:58 +0000

Last year, he said, Harvard issued about 300 “likely” notifications. By way of contrast, Dartmouth College, for example, this year offered admission to 444 early decision applicants for this coming fall, 17 fewer than last year. Yale admitted 14.5 percent of its early action applicants for the class of 2015; of 5,257 early applicants, 761 were notified of their acceptances last month.



I find the article misleading, especially parts such as the one above. Right here it’s comparing the number of Harvard likely letters to Dartmouth early decision admits, which makes little sense because schools like Dartmouth and Yale all give out likely letters of their own in addition to having an early admissions round, and so do Cornell and Columbia. (In fact, Dartmouth gives out lots of likely letters) You also cannot assume that Harvard wouldn’t be giving out likely letters along with its peers in the Ivy League even if it had retained its early admissions process.