<p>The College of New Jersey is receiving a record number of applications for admission this year and has also seen a spike in the number of ethnic minority students applying. To date, the number of students seeking admission to The College of New Jersey is 20 percent ahead of last year’s pace, when TCNJ received 8,179 applications for approximately 1,300 spots in the freshman class. The jump is consistent with a trend that would lead TCNJ to receive 62 percent more applications in 2007 than it did in 2004, if this pace continues through the remainder of the admissions season.</p>
<p>In recent years, TCNJ has increased student diversity significantly, and 36 percent of its current freshman class self-reported as non-white. That percentage could grow further next fall, with the number of black (16 percent), Asian (34 percent), and Hispanic (16 percent) applicants exceeding last year’s totals at this time by healthy margins.</p>
<p>The College has also noticed a jump in the number of out-of-state applicants (50 percent) this year.</p>
<p>The dramatic rise in the number of applicants has been fueled by many factors, including the transformation of TCNJ’s undergraduate curriculum. TCNJ students benefit from a 13-to-1 student/faculty ratio and classes that explore subject matter with great depth and allow for unique and dynamic learning opportunities. Prospective students have also taken notice of the prestigious rankings heaped upon the institution by U.S. News and World Report, Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges, The Princeton Review, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and other national publications.</p>
<p>While the number of students seeking admission to TCNJ each fall has improved each year, so have the academic credentials of those applicants. TCNJ’s current generally admitted freshmen have average SAT scores of 1307 and class ranks in the top seven percent of their high school classes.</p>