哈佛耶鲁普林斯顿公布今年的早期录取结果

Branford College, YaleUniversity, New Haven, Connecticut. Photo courtesy: Fishville

Fishville's Notes：现在几乎所有的学校都发布了2012年的早期录取结果。今年耶鲁早期行动接受的学生比去年少（675）致使其早期录取率为15.7％。亚裔学生今年更加困难，哈佛公开表示它继续去年的录取趋势以増加非洲裔和拉丁裔的录取数。这当然是以减少亚裔配額为代价的。这次哈佛做得更加理直气壮，因为它有白宫新規則做坚强后盾。哈佛说他们的变化反映了“联邦政府的要求改变有关种族和族裔资料的收集和报告的方式＂。这指的是白宫的新政策（美国新政策敦促大学种族多样化)。它要各大学尽其所能使美国校园更加多元化而扩招少数裔学生，说这样能产生更具＂创意＂的学习环境。​​所以当您投票选举时，想想您的儿子或女儿被无故拒绝或延搁录取的命运。

Now virtually all of the schools released their early program's decisions for class 2012, this year Yale accepted less students (675) than last year with an acceptance rate of 15.7% for its early pool. Asians were suffered even more as Harvard openly said that it follows last year's trend to further increase the numbers of African-Americans and Latinos on the expense of decreasing the Asian quotas. This time they do it with the strong backing of the White House's new guideline as Harvard said that there was " changes in federal requirements concerning collecting and reporting race and ethnicity information". That was referring to White House's new policy (美国新政策敦促大学种族多样化) with regard to do what ever it takes to make America's classroom more diversified to generate "more creative" learning environment. Once again, thinking about more for your next election votes if your sons or daughters were rejected or deferred basically for no reason.

Yale accepts 675 early applicants

 Dec. 16, 2011 | By Andrew Giambrone, Yale Daily News.

Yale admitted 675 of the 4,304 early applicants for admission to the class of 2016, marking a 15.7 percent admissions rate for early action candidates, according to admissions statistics released to alumni interviewers. Of the early applicant pool, 2,394 students have been deferred for regular decision and 1,180 were denied admission.

The 15.7 percent early acceptance rate marks an increase from last year's 14.5 percent early admission rate and the 13.9 percent acceptance rate for the class of 2014.

Yale accepted 50 fewer students than Princeton and 100 fewer than Harvard in this admissions cycle, the first in four years that all three schools have had early action policies.

The breakdown

• Total applicants: 4,304
• Number of applicants accepted: 675 (15.7 percent)
• Number of applicants deferred: 2,394 (55.6 percent)
• Number of applicants rejected: 1,180 (27.4 percent)
• Number of incomplete/withdrawn applications: 55

Harvard CollegeAdmits 772 Early Applicants

Harvard Magazine, December 15, 2011.

Harvard College announced today that 772 of 4,231 applicants for nonbinding early admission had been accepted. The College reinstated early admission as an option for the class entering next fall [3], after a four-year period of offering only the common, regular admission procedure.

According to the news release, [4] fewer early applicants were admitted this year than in the recent past, even with a larger early-action pool. William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, cited the growth in total applicants (to nearly 35,000 last year) as a reason for being more discerning in granting early admission.

Among applicants not granted admission now, 2,838 were deferred for regular action with the rest of the applicant pool, with decisions announced in early spring; 546 applicants were denied admission; and the remainder either withdrew or submitted incomplete applications.

Those admitted from the early-applicant pool this year are, according to the news release, “more diverse ethnically than any previous early cohort” and “comparable with the current freshman class. Although it is difficult to make precise comparisons to previous years because of changes in federal requirements concerning collecting and reporting race and ethnicity information, 9.6 percent of admitted students this year are African-American, compared with 7.2 percent the last time Harvard had early action. There was a similar increase for Latinos (9.9 percent vs. 7.9 percent) and Native Americans and Native Hawaiians (1.7 percent vs. 1 percent), and a slight decrease for Asian Americans (22 percent vs. 23 percent). The current freshman class is 19 percent Asian American, 10 percent African-American, 10.2 percent Latino, and 1.7 percent Native American and Native Hawaiian.”

The College tracks such data because one rationale for dropping early action four years ago was its presumed adverse effect on applicants from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds [5], whose schools, for instance, might have less adequate guidance counseling.

The effect on financial diversity, however, is still unclear: according to the news release, “It is still too early to determine the socioeconomic composition of the admitted group because many students have not yet submitted financial information.” 

The Daily Princetonian: 726 offered early admission

By CATHERINE DUAZO, STAFF WRITER, Friday, December 16th, 2011 

The University has offered admission to 726 students out of a pool of 3,443 candidates for the Class of 2016, or 21 percent, through its new single-choice early action program. Decisions for early action admissions were released online Thursday afternoon.

These students are expected to make up between 31 and 36 percent of the total number of applicants who will be admitted to the incoming freshman class.

The admitted students represent 30 countries, 42 states and the District of Columbia. Ten percent are international students, and 37 percent are American students from diverse backgrounds.

An equal percentage of men and women were accepted. Thirteen percent of the early action admits are sons and daughters of University alumni, 10 percent are the first members of their families to attend college and 56 percent currently attend public schools.

On their applications, 23 percent of the admitted students indicated they want to study engineering.

“I was certainly very pleased with the size of the pool and the fact that … the pool was so deep and broad,” Dean of Admissions Janet Rapelye said. “I was very pleased that we had students applying from so many corners of the world.”

Of the admitted students, 64 percent applied for financial aid.

“That said to me that the pool was deep enough so that students were getting the message about our financial aid,” Rapleye said. The University’s financial aid program runs on a “no-loan” policy, which means that students who qualify for financial aid receive grants that do not need to be repaid.

The University’s early action program restricts applicants to applying early only to Princeton and not to other early programs. The students are not, however, required to accept the University’s offer of admission should they get in and only need to decide whether to matriculate at the end of the regular admission process in the spring.

The last time the University offered an early application option for prospective students was in 2006.

When it was announced earlier this year that the early action admission program would be reinstated, critics voiced concerns that the decision would disadvantage low-income students and underrepresented minorities. Rapelye noted, however, that she feels the admission committee has made progress in admitting a diverse class.

“It’s not necessarily just percentage but sheer numbers that I think we’ve made progress on,” she said.

Since the last round of early decision applications in 2006, the numbers of students of color and from public high schools in the admitted class have both increased by 6 percent, and the male-to-female ratio has evened out from a 2 percent imbalance in favor of men.

“We never have target groups, and we never have quotas, but we went into a recruitment process this year knowing that we were going to have early action and making every effort to encourage students to apply if this was their first choice,” Rapelye said. “They wanted to have an early indication, and they’d have a lot of choice on their side, so I think it has something do with the recruitment.”

She noted that student background was heavily considered in the decision-making process.

“We were looking to make sure that we had a group that looked a lot like what we had done last year in terms of building a multicultural community,” Rapelye explained. “And I think we’re really pleased with the results.”

The Office of Admission will consider these admitted students when examining the regular applicant pool.

“I think we will go into the process with a very open mind in terms of trying to put together the very best Class of 2016,” Rapelye said. “I honestly have no idea how big the pool is going to be this year; it’s very difficult to predict the size of the pool, and given that we just started an early action program, there’s not even a way for me to track how many applications we had on today’s date versus last year’s date.”

Meanwhile, 1,921 applications were deferred to the regular applicant pool, and the admission committee will reexamine them in the spring.

“I was hoping that we would have quality in this group, and we absolutely have that,” Rapelye said. “The vast majority of kids who applied early were excellent students, and it was challenging because we couldn’t accept all of them.”

The University offered early action admission from 1980 to 1996 and then instated early decision admission until  2006.