Williams College admitted 244 applicants to the Class of 2019 under early decision.  

With the total number of early decision applicants at 593, the early admission rate remained unchanged from last year at 41%.

This year's early admittees represent 44% of the targeted class size of 550.

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Johns Hopkins admitted 539 applicants to the Class of 2019 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision applicants grew 17% to 1,865, resulting in an early admission rate of 29%.

This year's early admittees represent 32% of the targeted class at the Whiting School of Engineering and 68% of the targeted class at Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

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Duke admitted 815 applicants to the Class of 2019 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision remained relatively unchanged at 3,180 this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 26%.

Of those admitted, 652 will be attending the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, while the remaining 163 will matriculate at the Pratt School of Engineering. 

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Brown accepted 617 applicants to the Class of 2019 under early decision.  

The total number of early decision remained steady at 3,016 this year, resulting in an early admission rate of 20%.

A total of 1,968 applicants were deferred to regular decision and 408 were denied admission.  

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Dartmouth accepted 483 applicants to the Class of 2019 under early decision.  

The total number of early admission applicants grew to 1,859 this year, up 11% from last year's 1,682 applicants.  This resulted in an early admission rate of 26%.

Dartmouth anticipates these early admits will account for 41% of this year's class.    

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Early admission results are now rolling in.  Here's the latest as of 5:00pm December 21:

The number of applicants for early admission are now starting to be reported by major colleges and universities. Here's the list as of December 10th:

Thought you'd find this September 2013 entry from the Harvard Crimson Admissions Blog of some use.  In it they interview seven recent applicants and their reasons for taking advantage of early action and decision programs.  Note: only one of the students speaks of Harvard and not all of them end up attending the school they applied to early.

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