The Waiting
Game…
Patricia B. Taylor
James G. O’Hara
February 3, 2015
Class of 2015
• 245 Seniors
– 80% applied Early Decision/Early Action
• 34% applied for Early Decision
responses
• 71% applied for Early Action responses
As of January 29, 2015
Decisions Made
• 84 Students Applied Early Decision/
Early Decision II
– 48% Accepted
Early Decision (ED) is the application process in
which students make a commitment to a firstchoice institution where, if admitted, they will
definitely enroll.
Decisions
Pending
• 71 % of the senior class applied Early Action
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60 % of the applicants have acceptances
thus far
Early Action (EA) is the application process in which students
apply to an institution of preference and receive a decision
well in advance of the institution’s regular response date.
Athletics
Brown University, College of the Holy Cross,
Duke University, Manhattan College,
Providence College, Princeton University,
Susquehanna University, Yale University
Baseball, Crew, Football, Lacrosse,
Swimming, Track & Field
- Many students are engaged in recruitment discussions.
Additional decisions will be available later this spring.
Art, Music, Theatre
& Film
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Berklee College of Music
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Rochester Institute of Technology
Savannah College of Art & Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
School of Visual Arts
Decisions
Pending
• 85% of the students have also applied Regular Decision
– Notification of decisions will be sent throughout
the month of March and in early April
Regular Decision is the application process in which a student submits
an application by a specified date and receives a decision within a
reasonable amount of time or on a specified date.
Rolling Admission is the application process in which an institution
reviews applications as they are completed and renders admission
decisions to students throughout the admission cycle.
All Decisions
Will be determined before
May 1st
Candidate Reply Date is a nationally recognized
date, May 1st , for students to make a nonrefundable deposit to the college they will be
attending
Statistics
Class of 2015
 1951 applications processed
 Increase of 550 apps from 2014
 313 different colleges
 Increase of 46 colleges from 2014
 3 students returning to native countries
 1 student applying for PG year
 2 students participating in a Gap Year
outcomes
Examples of
Early Decision acceptances:
American, Amherst, Bentley,
Brown, Bucknell, Colby, Colgate,
Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Elon,
Gettysburg, Haverford, Hobart and
William Smith, College of the Holy
Cross, Lehigh, Loyola (MD)
Outcomes, Cont.
Early Decision acceptances:
Manhattan College, NYU, U of
Pennsylvania,
Providence, Rice,
U. of Richmond, RIT, Skidmore,
Southern Methodist, Susquehanna,
Syracuse, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest,
Washington and Lee
Results for some
Popular Choices
Colleges with multiple Early Action acceptances:
Binghamton, Case Western Reserve, College of
Charleston, University of Colorado, Elon,
Emerson, Fairfield, Fordham, Georgetown,
Georgia Tech,
High Point, Hofstra,
Indiana Univ., Ithaca, Loyola Univ. (MD),
Manhattanville, U. of Massachusetts,
U. of Michigan, U. of New Hampshire
Additional Results
Northeastern, Ohio U. Ohio State Univ.,
Princeton, Providence College, Purdue,
Roger Williams, Santa Clara Univ.,
U. of Scranton, U. of Southern California,
Southern Methodist, SUNY at Albany,
U. of Tampa, Tulane, U. of Vermont,
Villanova, U. of Virginia, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Yale
TRENDS
– 1951 applications submitted/245 students approximately 8 per senior (misleading figure)
– 16% or 40 students to U of Michigan
– 17% or 41 students to U of Vermont
– 22% or 54 students to SUNY Colleges
– 37 states & District of Columbia
Trends, Cont.
Large State Universities
U. of Alabama, Auburn, UCLA,
U. of Colorado,
U. of Delaware, Eastern Michigan, Florida State,
Indiana Univ., James Madison, U. of Massachusetts,
U. of Michigan, Michigan State, U. of North
Carolina, Ohio U., Ohio State U., Penn State, U. of
South Carolina, U. of Southern California, U. of
Vermont, U. of Virginia, U. of Wisconsin,
SUNY Colleges and Universities: Albany, Binghamton,
Cortland, Fredonia, New Paltz, Oneonta,
Purchase, Stony Brook
Final Decisions
(Will be made by May 1st)
Exciting!
Congratulations to the
Class of 2015!
We look forward to their
final decisions.