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This year, Harvard’s early pool bounced back with a 7.2 percent increase in applications. Yale’s pool dipped slightly, by 3 percent.Repeated inquiries at Yale’s admission office were not returned. Prospective Elis will receive their decisions online this Thursday...
Meanwhile, Stanford’s early figures nearly mirrored those of Harvard. The West Coast school, similar in size to Harvard, admitted 20 percent of its early pool this year and also saw a comparable increase in applications...
...Princeton spokesman said the admission office did not have figures available as of last night, though decision letters were mailed to applicants last Friday. Princeton, which has retained its early decision program, saw its applicant pool rise 10 percent this year, after a substantial dropoff for the Class...
...that an admissions department that is led by someone who believes that football is “antithetical to the academic mission” of Dartmouth, and the pool of possible choices shrinks even further...
...soon begin to fall as well. This monumental change was exogenous to the football program and should have been mitigated by the admissions office offering more generous financial aid packages (to rival the initial packages offered by traditional big-spenders like Princeton, Harvard and Yale, which have a greater pool of monetary resources to draw from), and admitting a higher percentage of the student-athletes that qualified under the AI banding system. The administration didn’t, and the Big Green quickly lost the ability to compete with other Ivy schools, going 12-37 in the league play since...