21.   He heard in December that he had not been admitted to Harvard under its early admission program but was being considered in its pool of regular-admission applicants.

22.   In an abrupt reversal after a flood of early applicants, Brown University has said it will scrap its two-year-old early admissions policy.

23.   Inundated with a record number of requests for early admission, colleges are now rejecting many of the applications instead of deferring them for later consideration.

24.   Later, I got early admission to the University of Texas at Arlington.

25.   Meanwhile, the colleges that use binding early admissions to lock in top students are encouraging the practice by accepting more early applicants.

26.   Ms. Grant was granted early admission by Harvard last December.

27.   Notification of acceptance for early admission.

28.   One recent study by professors who study higher education at Harvard, however, casts significant doubt on the perks of early admissions.

29.   Other departments are watching computer science to see how the early admissions program works.

30.   Proponents of early admissions believe it benefits both applicants and schools.