By Emily Sachar, Bloomberg News
PROVIDENCE – Brown University had 2.5 percent fewer applications this year for an early decision on admission, the school yesterday reported.
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Brown received 2,317 such applications this year, compared with 2,378 in the fall of 2005, said Jim Miller, dean of admissions. He said the drop wasn’t a serious concern, since it was so small.
Last week, Yale University reported a 13 percent slip in early action applications, while Princeton University had a 2 percent increase in the number of students applying under its binding early decision program.
“ED fever is swelling down a little bit,” Miller said in an e-mail.
He said that Brown doesn’t plan to follow Harvard and Princeton, which have said this will be the last year they accept early applicants. But he added that the school would continue to monitor its practices about early decision on an annual basis.
Students applying early usually may do so only at one college. At Brown and Princeton, early acceptances, which are due in mid-December, are binding.
Under so-called early action, offered at Yale and Harvard and other colleges, the schools’ acceptances aren’t binding. Those students may also apply to other schools as regular-decision applicants, according to the schools’ Web sites.
Brown, founded in 1764, making it the seventh-oldest U.S. college, enrolls 5,892 undergraduates, 1,574 graduate students and 343 medical students, according to its Web site.
