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Winter acceptance rates at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are higher than in the spring — here’s why it seems easier to get in when you apply early

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Students lay out in their bathing suits on the Quad, on the campus of Harvard University on January 27, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston, and much of the Northeast, is being hit with heavy snow from Winter Storm Juno.

  • Early admissions decisions in the Ivy League are announced in December.
  • The acceptance rate is far higher during the early admissions round in the winter than the regular decision announcements in the spring.
  • College admissions offices say this is due to the strength of the applicant pool rather than an ease of acceptance.

There’s a stark disconnect between early and regular admission rates.

The early admission rates at Ivy League schools for the class of 2022 ranged from a 24.9% acceptance rate at Dartmouth College to a 14.5% acceptance rate at Harvard University.

<img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5a394030b0bcd5e3178b5bba-1200/class-of-2022-early-admission-rates.png" alt="class of 2022 early admission rates" data-mce-source="Andy Kiersz / read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com