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[quote=Anonymous]Conversation tends to focus on the few, super selective colleges on this board. The applications went up at those schools, but at the rest of the colleges, applications are down by double digit percentages.

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2021/02/08/applications-fall-early-decision-and-early-action

[QUOTE]Harvard University admitted 747 applicants who applied early action (which is nonbinding) to the institution this year. The number of early applicants was 10,086, up from 6,424 for last year's class. Brown University admitted 885 students who applied early decision (which is binding) this year. The application pool was 5,540, up 22 percent in a year. Dartmouth College admitted 566 students, from a pool of 2,664, up nearly 29 percent.

Those kinds of increases were not unique to the Ivy League. The University of Virginia's early decision pool was up 38 percent. A record number (4,000) applied to Tulane University early decision. That's up from 1,000 when Tulane started early decision in 2016.

Is this a sign of something good (for colleges) coming out of this pandemic year?

Actually, it's not.

According to new data from Hobsons' Naviance service, the number of students applying [b]early decision (nationally) is down 4.6 percent[/b]. And the number of students who applied [b]early action fell 5.7 percent[/b]. Melissa Meyer of Hobsons said the numbers suggest that yield will be even more difficult for colleges to predict -- except perhaps those in the top ranks that are receiving plenty of early applications.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Hobsons did release data by size of institution for changes in early-action applications:

Very small (2,000 or fewer students): Down 29 percent
    Small (2,001 to 4,000 students): Down 24 percent
    Medium (4,001 to 7,000 students): Down 12 percent
    Midsize (7,001 to 13,000 students): Down 10 percent
    Large (13,001 to 20,000 students): Down 2 percent
    Very large (more than 20,000 students): Up 5 percent

Meyer of Hobsons noted that the trends are particularly interesting in that early applications (early decision and early action) started to decline last year, before the pandemic. In some ways, she said, the steep increases in early decision in prior years may be reversing themselves.[/QUOTE][/quote]

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