Early Admission 2013 Update – Yale, Stanford, MIT
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Yale admitted just over 13% of early action applicants for the class of 2013, a significant drop from last year when 18% of early admission applicants were admitted to the Class of 2012, according to the Yale Daily News. 742 early applicants were admitted from a record applicant pool of 5,557. In addition, the Yale admissions office reports to have sent rejection letters to more than twice as many early applicants as they did last year, denying 38.3% of applicants and deferring 47.6 percent to the regular decision period. According to the article, Yale decided to admit fewer students this time because an unexpectedly high number of students admitted early from the class of 2012 chose to enroll.
Stanford accepted 689 of the 5,363 applicants to the Class of 2013, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. More than 25,000 students are expected to apply to Stanford through the regular admission process. The expected overall admit rate to be lower than 9 percent, the lowest rate in Stanford’s history.
MIT admitted 540 of the more than 5,000 early action applicants to the Class of 2013.
