Princeton Early Action

Princeton Early Action Figures December 5, 2013 Princeton Early Action figures are up slightly this year as compared to last year. Princeton Early Action figures are up this year. 3,831 students submitted Early Action applications to Princeton this fall, up slightly from the 3,810 students who submitted Early Action applications last fall to the university. This is the third year that Princeton has had Early Action admissions so one cant really compare the Early stats with trend lines and such just yet. In a couple of more years, this will be possible. As you may remember, Harvard and Princeton re-instituted Single Choice Early Action policies for the Class of 2016 and on (read our post on the Harvard and Princeton admissions spin). According to an article on the Princeton Early Action numbers in The Daily Princetonian, [Dean of Admission Janet]  Rapelye said the Office of Admission is aiming for a class size of 1,290 students. Two years ago, 726, or 21.1 percent,  of the 3,443 early applicants for the Class of 2016 were accepted, approximately half of the resulting class of 1,357 students. For the Class of 2017, 697, or 18.3 percent  of 3,810 early applicants were accepted, again approximately half of the 1,291 class size. For the Class of 2016, 83% of students admitted to Princeton under their SCEA program chose to matriculate, while this number stood at 81% for the Class of 2017. What do you think Princetons Early Action yield will be for this years class? Will it drop again or will it go up? Let us know your thoughts on the subject by posting a Comment below. We look forward to hearing from you. Princeton Early Action Princeton Early Action November 18, 2012 Princeton Early Action numbers are up by about 10% this year (image by Alfred Hutter). Princeton Early Action numbers are in. There was an article yesterday in The Princetonian about the spike in Early Action applications to Princeton this admissions cycle in which our founder, Bev Taylor, is quoted. This year at Princeton, 3,791 students applied for admission in the Early cycle. This number marked about a ten percent increase from the 3,443 students who applied in the previous Early cycle. And because of Hurricane Sandy, more applications may be trickling in since Princeton decided to enact a flexible Early deadline for applications. According to The Princetonian article on Early Action admissions at Princeton by Catherine Duazo, Last year, the Office of Admission accepted 726 of the applicants, or 21 percent. The target class size for the Class of 2017 is 18 fewer students than recent class sizes due to the over-enrollment of the Class of 2016 by 49 students.  The over-enrollment was partly a result of the Universitys reinstated early action program, which began last year and made the yield more difficult to predict. The University had a binding early decision program between 1996 and 2006 but stopped the practice to attempt to make the admission process more equitable. So why the 10% increase in Early Action applications to Princeton? Its possible, as the Dean of Admissions at Princeton suggests, that because Princetons Early Action policy has now been around a year longer, it gave more time for students to weigh applying to Princeton Early. Also, as Bev suggests, the flexible deadline that Princeton instituted because of Hurricane Sandy could have led to an increase as many other schools only extended their deadlines a couple of days.