Some who applied early were admitted, she said, while a number of stronger students who applied during the regular admissions cycle were not.

The controversy resulted in applications to Bristol falling for the first time in a decade in the 2004/05 admissions cycle.

Entrance is intensely competitive, with 12 applications per place in the last admissions cycle.

The ballot proposition - set to go into effect in 45 days - comes at an awkward time in the university's admissions cycle.

New York City elementary schools are lining up tours for parents of prospective students this month, as the annual admissions cycle kicks into gear.

There are plenty of others who see that putting the bulk of the admissions cycle into August is rather fraught.

During the summer, the service academies report the number of vacancies available for the coming admissions cycle to each member of Congress.

This led to an increase in national interest in polytechnic places at an earlier stage of the annual admissions cycle.

Princeton's undergraduate program is highly selective, admitting 7.86% of undergraduate applicants in the 2011-12 admissions cycle (for the Class of 2016).

As of the 2010 admissions cycle, 70 percent of applicants were accepted.