The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that it admitted a total of 1,464 applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 21,708 applications were submitted this year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 7 percent.  

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Georgia Tech announced today that it admitted 22 percent of applicants to the Class of 2022.  

In total, nearly 8,000 students were admitted from a total pool of over 35,600 early action and regular decision applicants.  

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Here's an article from the Wall Street Journal with a look at how college admissions officers at Bucknell, Georgia Tech and Rice are attempting to keep up with surges in application numbers.  With applications being considered in eight minutes (or less), it's vital to stay focused, consistent and compelling in your materials.  

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The University of Virginia announced today that it admitted 6,000 early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 21,573 early action applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 27.8 percent.  44 percent of in-state applicants were admitted while 21.5 percent of out-of-state applicants were admitted.  

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Here's a good article from the Washington Post with an inside look at college admissions at the University of Maryland.

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Boston College announced today that it admitted 3,170 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 10,360 early action applications were received this year, up 15 percent, resulting in an early admission rate of 31 percent.  

Boston College hopes to fill approximately one-third of the Class of 2022 with students accepted early action.   

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Georgia Tech announced today that it admitted 4,677 early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Early action applications grew 16 percent to 18,124, resulting in an early action admission rate of 26 percent—46 percent for residents and 19 percent for non-residents.

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Northwestern University admitted 1,072 early decision applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Early decision applications rose 6 percent to 4,049, resulting in an early admission rate of 26 percent. With total applications topping 40,000, the overall admission rate is projected to fall to approximately 8 percent. 

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Wesleyan University admitted 279 early decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.

A total of 718 applications were received, resulting in an EDI admit rate of 39 percent.  

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Emory College admitted 503 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2021.

The overall ED1 admission rate was 31 percent.

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Oxford College at Emory admitted 223 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.

The overall ED1 admission rate was 25 percent.

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Cornell accepted 1,533 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants rose to 6,319, resulting in an admisison rate of 24.3 percent.

Legacy students made up 22.1 percent of early admits and athletes made up 11.5 percent.   

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Here's our latest list of early decision and early action dates for the Class of 2022.  As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here where available, as well as last year's notification dates for reference.   

Case Western is set to announce today at 8pm ET (both EDI and EA).  Colorado College (EA), Kalamazoo and the University of Michigan are on tap for Wednesday 12/20.

With ED/EA decisions released for virtually all of the schools we track, we'll call this 38th update our final one this season. 

Good luck, seniors!

Georgetown University admitted 1,002 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 8,383 early action applications were received this year, up 7 percent, resulting in an early admission rate of 12 percent. 

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Dartmouth accepted 565 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early admission applicants grew to 2,270 this year, up 13.5 percent.  This resulted in an early admission rate of 24.9 percent.

Dartmouth anticipates these early admits will account for 47 percent of this year's class.    

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