<p>Record apps and smaller class target combine for 10% drop in admit rate.</p>
<p>WISCONSIN</a> STATE JOURNAL</p>
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UW-Madison has received a record number of applications for next fall 's freshman class. To date, the admissions office has received 24,747 applications -- up about 500 from this time last year.</p>
<p>The university will admit about 12,000 students -- 2,000 fewer than last year -- in hopes of having a freshman class of about 5,700, according to admissions director Robert Seltzer. Many students who are admitted choose not to enroll.
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<p>Of course, the official data of UW-Madison shows the school received 24,870 applications for its class of 2011. That is about 150 more applications than the reported record. </p>
<p><a href="http://apa.wisc.edu/CDS_USNEWS/CDS_2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://apa.wisc.edu/CDS_USNEWS/CDS_2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>Reading comp 101--</p>
<p>"To date, the admissions office has received 24,747 applications -- up about 500 from this time last year.</p>
<p>No reading comprehension challenge here, just misleading reporting of preliminary data. </p>
<p>More applications, lower admissions, and much higher yield ... let's revisit it in the summer and separate wishful thinking from facts.</p>
<p>Last year's yields were 25% OOS and nearly 65% instate. Tuition increases for OOS were kept low and instate is already low. The yield projections are conservative if anything.</p>
<p>via the Colgate board, apps at >9400, so far a 7.3% increase over last year (8759).</p>
<p>Look, Barrons, we can safely assume that Seltzer is relying on the advice of well-remunerated enrollment managers to predict the admissions and yield curves correctly. You see to have reasons to believe that Wisconsin should be able to flip the percentage of admissions and yield in one year. Well, power to you. </p>
<p>The question is why this --and the fantastic 2% record temporary increase-- is remarkable in the context of admissions for the Class of 2012.</p>
<p>The yields are not projected to "flip" of anything of the sort. They are consistent with prior years as shown in the report I linked. Yields dipped after the big tuition increase a few years ago but since then the UW's tuition has dropped to near the lowest in the Big 10 for both in and OOS and yield has gone back to historical levels.</p>
<p>By flipping the admit and yield rates, I meant that the the admission rates ought to go down by 8% and the yield increase by almost as much. </p>
<p>Admission Down, Yield Up = flipping percentages. </p>
<p>Class of 2011
Applied 24870<br>
Admitted 13977 56%
Enrolled 5982 43%</p>
<p>Projected Class of 2012
Applied 24747<br>
Admitted 12000 48%
Enrolled 5700 48%</p>
<p>Fwiw, I'll bet you a couple of Coronas that the final admission and yield rates will be nowhere close to 48% when all the dust settles.</p>
<p>Make the over/under 50.00% and deal.</p>
<p>For the sake of clarity, I'll take that admit rates will be above 50% and yield below 50%. :)</p>
<p>Just the admit rate--50.00% or less. Yield will follow but could have a different mix as in instate swings up to 70% and OOS falls. Lots of possibilities when you add Internationals and Minn. kids into the mix.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee University
Applications for class of 2011: 3718
Applications for class of 2012: 6348</p>
<p>W&L has a new scholarship program this year, and I guess the admissions office publicized that fact well.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee University
Applications for class of 2011: 3718
Applications for class of 2012: 6348</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Class of 2011 had been down from Class of 2010: 4215 applications Washington Common</a> Data Set 2006-07</p>
<p>WesDad-- I was looking at the same CDS's as you posted. Here's the '11 profile page which corroborates the 3718 number, so W&L's apps did in fact drop last year for some reason.
Freshman</a> Class Profile :: Washington and Lee University</p>
<p>6348 represents a huge increase....71%....guess that $100M scholarship gift has had some results.
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A $100 million gift from an anonymous alumnus as well as the generosity of numerous individuals and corporations have allowed W&L to offer scholarships of at least tuition, room and board to approximately ten percent of each incoming class.
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<p>The</a> Johnson Scholarships at Washington and Lee University :: Washington and Lee University</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill up 7%</p>
<p>Making</a> the cut - Features</p>
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The admissions office is in the midst of reading 21,450 applications for undergraduate admission - about 7 percent more than last year. And every year, the number climbs higher.</p>
<p>"Although we're pleased with the increase, we really didn't see it coming," said Barbara Polk, senior associate director of admissions.
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<p>Indiana Univ up ~2% thus far
IU</a> admission standards increase</p>
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IU had received more than 29,000 applications as of mid-February this year, surpassing last years total number of 28,500 applications, IU Director of Admissions Mary Ellen Anderson said. The Office of Admissions stops taking applications in August.</p>
<p>IU is not the only school experiencing drastic increases in applications. Seventy-three percent of colleges across the country reported the number of admission applications had increased from the previous year, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling, State of College Admission 2006 report. </p>
<p>The nationwide increase in college applications may be attributed to a continued increase in the number of high school graduates and to college enrollment being at an all-time high. Both high school graduates and college enrollments are expected to increase until at least 2014, according to the report.
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<p>UNC Chapel Hill up 7.5%
Appalachian State up 19%
Duke up 5%
NC State up 7%
Charlotte</a> Observer | 03/03/2008 | Student applications flood colleges</p>
<p>Univ of Denver up 33%
Univ of Colorado up 16%
Colorado State up 19%</p>
<p>Colleges</a> see record number of applicants : Education : The Rocky Mountain News</p>
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<p>Humboldt State, realtively unknown to most members of CC, received 9,489 applications from first-time freshmen, up from 7,366 applications from this time last year (Release date Jan. 11). Overall, including transfer and graduate students, the campus had received 11,251 applications, up from 8,937 a year ago.
The number of applicants is so large, in fact, that HSU has stopped accepting freshmen applications for the fall. HSU</a> sees big rise in applicants - Humboldt State Now</p>
<p>Furman's applications are up 14%.</p>
<p>CU Boulder up 16%</p>
<p>Colorado</a> Daily News</p>
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CU-Boulder is among thousands of colleges and universities across the country seeing a tremendous upswing in freshman applications.</p>
<p>The state's flagship campus saw a 16 percent increase in freshman applications this year. Its applicant pool rose 3,342 over last year.</p>
<p>The leap is across every demographic - in-state, out-of-state, and every racial background.</p>
<p>“We've had a record number of students of color apply this year,” said Kevin MacLennan, director of CU-Boulder's Office of Admissions.
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