This was on the front page of the Exonian today, reported by my super-excellent best buddy and fellow senior Boaz Chandrasekhar: 64% of Exonians applied early to schools this fall. This is up from 58% last year. There are 315 people in the class of 2006, 30 of whom are postgraduates. Boaz wrote “early decision” in the article but I am hoping / assuming that that is a typo and that he really meant “early” in all its various forms, not that it really matters all that much. ED probably makes for a bigger portion of the applicant pie, but there are some EA schools that are no slouches for applicants. It was also unclear as to whether or not this included ED II round school applications or not, but either way… a very formidable figure. We all made estimates earlier in the term but none of us guessed quite this high.

I’m publishing this to the web since it is, after all, already out in the world thanks to the Exonian. Very interesting. I expect that with that many people applying, some must have applied early to Columbia (which put out results yesterday afternoon) but I don’t know who they are or how many of them there were.

Crazy!