Middlebury College announced today that it admitted 326 early decision I applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 650 early decision I applications were received this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 50 percent.

Middlebury expects admitted early decision applicants to comprise 45 percent of the targeted class size of 715.  

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The University of Notre Dame announced today that it admitted 1,636 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 6,598 early action applications were received this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 25%. Total early action applications were up 10% over the previous year.   

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Johns Hopkins admitted 610 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

A total of 2,037 early decision applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 30 percent.

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Brown accepted 738 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants was 3,502 this year, up 10 percent and resulting in an early admission rate of 21%.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted 664 early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

A total of 9,557 applications were submitted this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 6.9 percent.  

6,210 applicants were deferred, 2,498 were denied, and the remaining 185 were withdrawn or incomplete.

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Yale admitted 842 applicants to the Class of 2022 under Single Choice Early Action.

5,733 applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 14.7 percent.  55 percent of applicants were deferred, 29 percent were denied, and 2 percent were withdrawn or incomplete.

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Duke admitted 875 applicants to the Class of 2022 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants rose 16 percent to 4,090 this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 21 percent.

Of those admitted, 707 will be attending the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, while the remaining 168 will matriculate at the Pratt School of Engineering. 

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The University of Pennsylvania admitted 1,312 early decision applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Early decision applications rose 15 percent from the previous year to 7,074, resulting in an admission rate of 18.5 percent.

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Princeton University admitted 799 single choice early action applicants to the Class of 2022.  

Applications grew 8 percent to 5,402, resulting in an early admission rate of 14.7 percent.

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Harvard announced earlier today that it admitted 964 applicants to the Class of 2022 under restrictive early action.  

A total of 6,630 early applications were received, up 2.4 percent from last year, resulting in an early admission rate of 14.5 percent. 

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The University of Georgia offered 8,000 high schools students early admission from a pool of nearly 15,000 applicants.

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Here's a good article from the New York Times that sheds some light on the various competiing objectives that colleges need to balance in their admissions processes and how colleges like Connecticut College, Olin College of Engineering, MIT and Yale are exploring new ways to create more holistic pictures of applicants within that context.

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With the University of California application now open for submissions, it's time to make sure everything is in order.  

Here are six tips for freshman applicants, courtesy of the University of California:

The University of California announced today that it is accepting extensions for Fall 2018 applicants affected by natural disasters.  

For those requesting the extension, the deadline will be extended from November 30, 2017 to December 15, 2017.  You will need to email your request to ucinfo@applyucsupport.net with the header "Extension Request – Weather/Fire Event" and provide context in the "Additional Comments" area of the Personal Insight section.

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If you're in the hunt for merit scholarships, be sure to stay on top of explicit deadlines a school on your list might have.

In some cases, like Boston University and the University of Richmond, it's a hard deadline that you have to meet in order for you to be considered at all.  In others, like Indiana University and many other public institutions, it's a "priority" deadline that maximizes your chances of merit aid before the money runs out.  Either way, merit aid continues to be an excellent way for good students to defray the cost of an education.  

We've compiled a list of selected schools in our coverage universe with explicit deadlines, along with some stats to help you gauge the size and breadth of the institution's merit offerings.  We've also included links to each school's scholarship page for easy access to the details.

Most of these schools automatically consider you for merit scholarships without the need for an additional application.  

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