<p>Yes, that was me this year – Princeton was ultimately top choice, Stanford second (although visits left me undecided). </p>
<p>But in '07, PYS all had ED. </p>
<p>"Said Dean Shaw, “This is not official yet, but I think it’s important. Remember that Harvard and Princeton eliminated their early [admissions] programs. So we’re seeing more overlap [now] with Princeton. Harvard is still first, [now] followed by Princeton [which jumped up two places over Yale and MIT].”</p>
<p>This would obviously explain the increase in non-S-en. students going to P. However, it does leave unanswered the reason for the numbers in '07, or rather why P is so low. I still don’t see why this means that the data is inaccurate or useless</p>
<p>We still know the number of YS cross-admits. We also know the number of PS admits. Given that PYS no longer have ED, Y and S are getting early applicants that would have otherwise applied to HP. Unless there’s a particularly compelling reason that the YS cross-admits were significantly fewer than the PS cross-admits, the 6% difference seems pretty significant.</p>