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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Early Action Notification Update!

I just got back from our weekly staff meeting and I have exciting news!  It looks like we are going to have decisions finalized this week.  That means the big day is moving up.



Early Action Notification is moving up!
Decisions will post at 5 PM Eastern
Friday, January 20, 2012


I'll try to answer questions and post some fun information to pass the time, but please remember that we don't stop reading.  We have about 17,000 Regular Decision applications to read.

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