NYT article on early athletic recruiting

Here is an interesting article about how young athletes are committing to college in spite of NCAA policies that are designed to protect against it!

From this week's New York Times:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/sports/committing-to-play-for-a-college-then-starting-9th-grade.html?hpw&rref=education&_r=1&referrer=

Thanks to Coach Zeff for sending the link to me!

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Mid-Year Updates From Colleges

Happy New Year! This is the time of year when some colleges send out a summary of their Early Action/Early Decision application numbers. In particular order, except how they are stacked in my inbox, here are some numbers for you!

Dartmouth College
1675 Early Decision Applicants (6.7% increase)
469 Admits (that is 40% of the entering class)
482 Denied
683 Deferred

Brown University
3100 Early Decision Applicants

Georgetown University
6700 Early Action Applicants
14% of the Applicants were Admitted

Duke University
3180 Early Decision Applicants (a 25% increase!)
797 Admits (nearly 47% of the incoming class)
691 Deferred

Stanford University
6948 Early Action Single Choice Applicants
748 Admits
593 Deferred

Boston College
5500 Early Action Applicants (a 4% increase)
2300 Admits

Stay tuned for more stats as they come in and for some Visi specific numbers!

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