Northwestern University admitted approximately 26 percent of early decision applicants to the Class of 2021.  

A total of 3,736 early decision applications were received this year, up 20 percent. With total applications topping 37,000, the overall admission rate is projected to fall under 10 percent. 

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Middlebury College announced today that it admitted 343 early decision I applicants to the Class of 2021.  

A total of 673 early decision I applications were received this year, up 6.5 percent from last year, resulting in an early admission rate of 51 percent.

Middlebury expects admitted early decision applicants to comprise 51 percent of the targeted class size of 705.  

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Emory College admitted 474 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2021.

A total of 1,493 ED1 applications were received this year, up 9 percent from the previous year.  The overall ED1 admission rate was 32 percent.

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Emory College admitted 190 Early Decision I applicants to the Class of 2021.

A total of 712 ED1 applications were received this year, up 53 percent from the previous year.  The overall ED1 admission rate was 27 percent.

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Johns Hopkins admitted 591 applicants to the Class of 2021 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants remained relatively steady at 1,934, resulting in an early admission rate of 31 percent.

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Duke admitted 861 applicants to the Class of 2020 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants grew 2 percent to 3,516 this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 24.5 percent.

Early decision admits will comprise 50 percent of this year's class, up from 48 percent last year. 

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Dartmouth accepted 555 applicants to the Class of 2021 under early decision.  

The total number of early admission applicants grew to 1,999 this year, up 3.7 percent.  This resulted in an early admission rate of 28 percent.

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

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Brown accepted 695 applicants to the Class of 2021 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants was 3,170 this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 22%.

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Cornell accepted 25.6 percent of applicants to the Class of 2021 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants grew 10 percent to 5,384.

Legacy students made up 23.3 percent of early admits and athletes made up 13.4 percent.   

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Barnard announced a 19 percent increase in early decision applicants for Class of 2021.  

Overall, 934 applications were received for the year compared to 787 for the Class of 2020. 

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Wesleyan University announced it received 742 early decision I applications for the Class of 2021, up more than 16 percent from the previous year. Actual admission results were not provided.  

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Williams admitted 257 applicants to the Class of 2021 under early decision.  

Early decision applications grew 25 percent from the previous year to 728, resulting in an early admission rate of 35%.

Early decision admits will comprise 47 percent of this year's class. 

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Columbia University announced it received 4,086 early decision applications for the Class of 2020, up 16 percent from the previous year.  The actual admission results were not provided.  

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The University of Pennsylvania admitted 1,354 early decision applicants to the Class of 2020.  

Early decision applications rose 7 percent from the previous year to 6,147, resulting in an admission rate of 22 percent.

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Here's our latest list of reported early admission rates for the Class of 2020.

This list includes several popular private and public schools, including Amherst, Bard, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Colorado College, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Dickinson, Duke, George Washington University, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, Middlebury, MIT, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pitzer, Pomona, Princeton, Scripps, Stanford, Tufts, Union College, University of Georgia, UNC Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, William & Mary, Williams and Yale. 

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