In Part II of this series developed an early admission strategy based on your competitiveness as an applicant, your college list, and your strength of commitment to the top schools on your list.  If you're a competitive applicant with strong qualifications, we recommend that you:

• Take full advantage of Early Action for all the schools on your list

• Apply Restrictive Early Action to your top school or when the restrictions don't inhibit your ability to take advantage of early admission programs at higher ranked schools 

• Apply Early Decision I when you are strongly committed to attending your top choice school and have no concerns about affordability

• Apply Early Decision II if you have been denied admission to your top choice school, you're strongly committed to attending this ED II school as your next best option, and have no concerns about affordability

With this early admission strategy in place, let's put it to work in Part III against a couple of hypothetical applicants.   

In Part I of this series we covered the fundamentals of college early admission programs.  We learned that:

• Colleges offer early admission programs to manage yield, lock up prized applicants and improve prestige in the process

• There can be as much as a 2-4x difference in admit rates between early and regular decision applicants

• Because there is often a high proportion of an enrolled class coming through early admission, your chances of getting in via regular decision are actually worse than you might think

In short, you should always consider early admission programs as part of your college plan.  But under what conditions does it make sense and how do you apply it against your list of schools?  This is the topic for Part II.  

Simply put, early admission should always be considered as part of your college plan.

Why?  Because early action and early decision programs can be tremendously useful in helping a competitive candidate enhance admission odds.  By submitting your application early, you'll hear back earlier and in most instances improve your chances for admission.  Better yet, if you're accepted early, you'll be able to avoid the cost and effort of applying to schools of lower interest on your list.

In this three part series, we'll explore the fundamentals, when/how to take advantage of them, and where early admission is offered.  Read on for Part I.

The University of Virginia announced today that it admitted 6,550 early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

A total of 25,126 early action applications were received, up 17 percent from the previous year, resulting in an overall early admission rate of 26 percent.  While the in-state admission rate was not reported, 19.3 percent of out-of-state applicants were admitted.  

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Here's our updated list of early decision and early action dates for the Class of 2023.  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.   

Good luck, seniors!

Boston College announced that beginning with the Class of 2024, it will replace early action with early decision I and II options.    

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Georgia Tech announced today that it admitted 4,000 early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

Early action applications grew 12 percent to 20,289, resulting in an early action admission rate of 20 percent—40 percent for residents and 14 percent for non-residents.

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Georgetown University admitted 919 restrictive early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

A total of 7,802 early action applications were received this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 12 percent. 

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted 707 early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

A total of 9,600 applications were submitted this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 7.4 percent.  

6,182 applicants were deferred and 2,483 were denied.

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Yale admitted 794 applicants to the Class of 2023 under Single Choice Early Action.

6,016 applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 13.2 percent.  56 percent of applicants were deferred, 30 percent were denied, and 2 percent were withdrawn or incomplete.

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Princeton University admitted 743 single choice early action applicants to the Class of 2023.  

A total of 5,335 applications were received, resulting in an early admission rate of 13.9 percent.

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The University of Georgia offered approzimately 7,500 early action applicants to the Class of 2023 from a pool of nearly 17,000 applicants.

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Here's our latest list of reported early decision and early action admisison rates for the Class of 2022.

This list includes results from Boston College, Bowdoin, Brown, Claremont McKenna, Colgate, Colorado College, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Emory at Oxford, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Middlebury, Mt. Holyoke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pitzer, Princeton, Rice, Scripps, Tulane (ED), the University of Georgia, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Yale, along with partial data from Barnard, Boston University, Columbia, NYU, Smith, Trinity College, Tufts and Williams.  While Stanford has released decisions, it will likely not release results until the end of the admissions cycle.

Bookmark this page, as we'll be updating it frequently over the next several weeks.

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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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