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Harvard Swamped With Early Applications

IVY LEAGUE

Yale sees major decrease.

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Students walk across campus at Harvard University. (Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

As if annihilating Yale 45-7 in Saturday’s football game weren’t enough for Harvard, the school has hurt its rival in another category: early applications. In its first year of having early applications—which permit a student to file for admission early for one private college—since 2007, Harvard received 4,245 applications.

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