<p>Hey,
I was wondering if someone knew something more about this. When you log in to Naviance, you have the option of clicking the "college match". Once you do, a list of schools will show up, but if you continue scrolling down, the schools you're applying to will show up.. and next to their name it says "# apps analyzed". Are these actually the number of people who are applying this year? Scary thing is not all schools use Naviance.. so the 15405 is not the total number of applications..
Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks</p>
<p>I think it’s the cumulative amount of apps over the years.</p>
<p>Yeah, that would mean an acceptance rate of less than 10%!</p>
<p>I was under the impression that Naviance stats of that nature only applied to your particular school… We couldn’t see for current years, but you could see in past years how many students applied, how many were accepted and how many of those attended. Is that not correct? I understand you might be able to see national info, but I thought there were also very specific numbers about your school so you could look at the numbers in a more comparative way.</p>
<p>last year something over 8,000 applied…</p>
<p>if it were cumulative other schools wouldn’t have 7,000 next to their name. Thanks though, I’ll see with my counselor what this is about.</p>
<p>Hi, in case anyone was wondering, that is the actual number for this year’s applicant pool.
Checked with my counselor today…
good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Kimi, I have to say, I think your counselor must be confused about something. This isn’t based on anything other than the fact that that number would represent a remarkable increase in applications - an increase of 71%!! Such an increase would move Middlebury up from being ONE OF the most selective Liberal Arts Colleges to THE most selective LAC. It would take it to the realm of Dartmouth and the Service Academies in terms of acceptance rate. I guess we’ll find out soon.</p>
<p>It is my understanding that Middlebury received around 9,000 applications this year.</p>
<p>At that number and at $65 an application (not considering those for whom the fee is waived), the application revenue for the college is $585K. Not bad!</p>
<p>According to bigfuture, Middlebury had 8847 applications. Of these, 1518 were accepted (17%) and 598 enrolled. It doesn’t say what year this represents, but it gives a feel for the numbers.</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“BigFuture College Search”>BigFuture College Search;
<p>I wonder how many people it takes to read 9,000 applications? If a person can read three applications per hour, giving each application 20 minutes, that’s 3,000 man hours which is 375 8 hour days. Assuming the work has to be completed between January 1st and March 15 (lumping ED in with RD for simplicity), that’s about 60 work days. 375 divided by 60 is 6.25. That’s 6 people. </p>
<p>If their compensation is somewhere around $100,000 per year (assuming they’ve got lots of things to keep them busy during the other 9 months of the year!) that would be about equal to the application fee total. I’ve always heard schools don’t make any money on applications, and I think that’s probably true.</p>
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<p>Those numbers are for the class of 2016.</p>
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<p>lol. Maybe the director of admissions makes that much. Most folks who work in admissions make much less than that.</p>
<p>Actually, Middlebury Admissions looks like it has 25 people on staff. $585,000 divided by 25 is $23,400. Either way, I’m pretty sure schools don’t make money charging $60 per application. I’m not trying to be a smarty pants, but it does cost money to run an admissions office at a school receiving a lot of applications.</p>
<p><a href=“https://web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx[/url]”>https://web.middlebury.edu/database/directory/Default.aspx</a></p>
<p>25 people! Many of those 25 are students and post-graduate workers. The staff is more like 14-15.</p>
<p>^^ Glad to hear it. That does seem like a lot of people. </p>
<p>I guess my point is that charging $50-$75 per application probably allows the admissions departments at most schools to be almost self-sustaining. I don’t like to think of the tuition I’m paying (at any school) going to fund that department. </p>
<p>I understand admissions serves a critical function, but more and more it seems like these departments are processing 5-20 times more applications than they can accept. It’s gotta be time and resource consuming, and it’s partly driven by their own marketing efforts! </p>
<p>I say charge those who want to take their shot, and put the tuition dollars into the classrooms.</p>
<p>Panther, sorry, I see my link didn’t go to the list I searched. There are 25 people at Mid with “Admissions” as part of their job title. I don’t know if any of them are students, undergrad or otherwise.</p>
<p>According to the NY Times there were 9,057 applications and a 2.55% increase from last year.</p>
<p><a href=“Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com”>Application Tally 2013 - Graphic - NYTimes.com;
<p>Interesting. Both Williams (-3.3%) and Amherst (-8.2%) took hits this year in the number of applicants. I wonder what’s causing this decline?</p>
<p>I was interesting to note that Amherst saw the biggest (%) drop of any school on the list. Skidmore, on the other hand, saw an incredible 42% increase in applications. I would love to know the reasons for these changes. Of course, I’m sure the admins would too.</p>
<p>Amherst was in the news lately due to a few cases of sexual assault and a suicide.</p>