What National Security Is. Now that it is fairly clear what national security is not, the task of crafting a definition of what it is should be easier. National security is the safekeeping of the nation as a whole.
However, the most attractive aspect of early admissions programs is that colleges and universities tend to admit a significantly higher percentage of the early applicant pool than they do of the normal applicant pool â in other words, there is the possibility that your chances of being accepted as an early admissions candidate are better than they would be as a regular applicant.
Stanford University, which has a nonbinding early-action process, accepted 10.2% of its early applicants, or 743 students, according to the Stanford Daily. That's a 0.6% decrease from last year's early-admission rate. MIT accepted 625 of its 6519 early-decision applicants for a 9.6% acceptance rate.