True. As I also wrote - the figure of 326 seems to large for ED1, but too small for ED1+ED2.
Accepting 326 from a smaller pool than the one from which they selected only 297 last year seems strange, especially since they are still trying to correct for two years of over-enrollment. However, accepting only 326 seems to create an much larger uncertainty in enrollment expectations.
The difference in numbers of ED applicants also make no sense. Last year there were 926 ED applicants. A drop to 643 seems to be too much. If you correct for recruited athletes and Posse finalists, we’re talking about 740 to 460 (a 38% drop). That just seems to steep a drop, especially when considering that the RD pool dropped from 8,824 to 8,522 (a 3.5% drop). This does not compute. There seem to be some 150 to 200 ED applicants “missing”.
Perhaps they did not consider recruited athletes and Posse finalists in the ED1 applicant pool. That would be around 170-180 applicants.