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...Stanford and Yale, like Harvard, both switched to “Single-Choice Early Action” programs this year. But as both schools had previously offered Early Decision programs, the change had a liberalizing effect on their policies...
Early applications to Stanford University soared by nearly 62 percent, surging from last year’s 2,468 applications to around 4,000 this fall...
...fact that we’ve received over 1,500 more applications than last year suggests that our new Early Action option more closely matches the needs and desires of our applicant pool than did our old Early Decision program,” Stanford Dean of Admissions Robin Mamlet said...
This year, Harvard, Stanford and Yale all offered non-binding “Early Action” plans, but prohibited students from applying early to any other school...
...This could be driven by competition over unformed brainiacs with law schools and even Stanford Business School, which has always trended younger,” said Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant who runs a much-followed thread on Business Week’s website about elite business school admissions called “ASKANDY.” “Ivy grads with nose-bleed GPAs and unclear career goals used to be hired for two years by investment banks and consulting shops during the boom. Now those kids, by default, go to law school...