Well, keep in mind that the above is triggered by the statement I think Jeff in admissions made, but might have been somewhere else, that applications were up about 30%. Last year they were around 27,000 if I remember my other post correctly, so that is 35,000. The 1800 is based on his blog that said students were up 80-100 this year, and last year I think the freshman class was 1720, so I used the nice round number. So this is just having fun with numbers on a bar napkin stuff. The true numbers will be revealed in the fall.
That is a shame about those boys. If they had been applying this year and were brave enough, they could have applied ED and maybe things would have been different. Hard to know.