The College notified 964 students of their acceptance into the Class of 2022 Tuesday, representing 14.5 percent of the 6,630 applicants for early admission.
This year’s acceptance rate for early applicants is roughly equal to last year’s rate—the lowest since the return of the early admission program in 2011. The overall early applicant pool was the largest since the program’s reinstatement.
“The one thing we can say with certainty is that the numbers rose this year,” William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said in an interview Tuesday. “In general terms, it appears that more institutions had increases than the reverse… Early admission, in one form or another, is the new normal.”
In addition to the 964 students accepted early, 4,882 students were deferred to the regular applicant pool and 611 students were rejected, reflecting 73.6 and 9.2 percent of the early applicant pool, respectively. The remaining 173 applications were marked incomplete and will be reviewed alongside regular decision applications when completed.
In September, Fitzsimmons announced that the College would accept fewer students into the Class of 2022 after a record-high yield produced crowding in freshman dorms this year. The Admissions Office is aiming to eventually admit “40 to 50 to maybe 100 people” off the Class of 2022 waitlist this year, Fitzsimmons said at the time.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/12/13/early-admissions-2022/
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