31.   She applied for early admission and was deferred to the general applicant pool.

32.   Shortly thereafter, Cornell called to apologize, telling Mikus that she had not won early admission and that no decision on her application would be made until spring.

33.   So far, admissions offices report that early admissions applications from foreign students have equaled or exceeded numbers from past years.

34.   Still, most college officials agree that early admission is best for students who are certain about their first choice and prepared to commit to it.

35.   The company pointed out that the score correction is coming too late to help students who applied to colleges for early admission late last year.

36.   The evaluation process for early admission was lengthy but helpful, Margie says.

37.   The competition to study with Ms. Kamman is no less fierce than the scramble for early admission to Yale.

38.   The flyer, though, contains much of the same welcoming language as the letter, and led Mikus to believe she had won early admission.

39.   The new early admissions program is crucial to getting the best and the brightest computer scientists of the future, say UW administrators who pushed for the program.

40.   Yield has also played a role in the trend toward early admissions.