Anyone else have a heart attack when they saw the Daily Princetonian?

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<p>Princeton</a> sees steep drop in applications for Class of 2014 - The Daily Princetonian</p>

<p>THIS IS THE JOKE ISSUE. IT'S NOT TRUE. I failed to realize this at first omg.</p>

<p>In the article:</p>

<p>"The University received an astonishingly low 10,943 applications for the Class of 2014, representing a 50 percent drop from last year, a stunned Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday.</p>

<p>If the University accepts roughly 2,150 people from the applicant pool this April — as it did last spring — the school’s acceptance rate would more than double, to 20.1 percent."</p>

<p>I didn't even apply and as soon as I read that I was like "goddammit"</p>

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<p>hahahahaha!</p>

<p>I thought it was a pretty good issue. Princetonfml had some funny posts about it.</p>

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<p>hahahahaha!</p>

<p>I thought it was a pretty good issue. Princetonfml had some funny posts about it.</p>

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<p>No fuc*** way. Are you serious?!?</p>

<p>EDIT- Wait…wow…i just read the thing…and…that was a horrible joke.</p>

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<p>That’s pretty good. Hahahaha
But oh how I wish that article was true…</p>

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<p>Hahahhhhhhahah hilarious</p>

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<p>Joke issue - post-Dean’s Date fun!</p>

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<p>i died/////</p>

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<p>That is sooo cooool! :)</p>

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<p>If that was true, I’d be ridiculously happy.</p>

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<p>HAAHA!! I totally freaked at first!! The thing is 20% is still pretty darn low which doesn’t make me feel better</p>

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<p>Do you think it will continue into next year?</p>

<p>EDIT: NOOOOOOOO I thought it was real…</p>

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<p>It says a lot about people’s attention span that all of these posters had at one point thought the article was real DESPITE THE FACT that the second line of this post explicitly says it is not.</p>

<p>What a twitter age we live in, no?</p>

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<p>Demographically, the college-age population will peak this year and then gradu
ally decline.</p>

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<p>Yes, I definitely do not presume a perfect correlation between demographics and the number of applicants. Other factors lead to the applicant increase despite a decrease in the sheer number of students graduating from high school. Economic recessions draw more applicants and their families to universities with munificent financial aid initiatives. Moreover, marketing among colleges is becoming increasingly more strategic not only in the volume of college-to-student contact but in order to appeal to particular sub-populations such as under-represented minorities and low-income students.</p>