APPLICATIONS GROWTH Class of 2013

Parents Forum
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<p>OK, its that time of year again to start posting reports of RD/overall applications growth.</p>

<p>Here's last year's thread for reference:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/447625-applications-growth-class-2012-a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/447625-applications-growth-class-2012-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also, researchmaven has been maintaining the ED apps growth report stats on this thread:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/597475-early-decision-applications-up-despite-financial-meltdown.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/597475-early-decision-applications-up-despite-financial-meltdown.html&lt;/a>
lots of good reading on that thread.</p>

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<p>1st out of the gate....</p>

<p>the UC system (no breakdown yet)..... +5% apps growth</p>

<p>More</a> students compete for fewer UC slots - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee</p>

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More students have applied to attend a University of California campus next year than any year in UC's history.</p>

<p>The count is preliminary, UC officials said, but will likely amount to a record number of rejection letters sent to high school seniors and aspiring transfer students.</p>

<p>"It looks like there will be fewer open spots than last year," UC spokesman Ricardo Vasquez said. </p>

<p>About 127,000 students applied to attend at least one of UC's nine undergraduate campuses during the fall 2009 term – a 5 percent increase over last year.</p>

<p>During sound economic times, that would be more students than UC campuses have room to admit. Only 77,521 of the 121,005 undergraduates who applied for 2008 – a UC record at the time – were accepted.

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<p>it will be interesting to see if the trend alluded to in this article plays out across the country....
Applications</a> soar at public colleges - The Boston Globe</p>

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<p>All I know is that at the same time last year, Tulane had received around 24K applicants in a record breaking year, this year they have already received around 32K applications, with more to follow.</p>

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<p>I'd love to see this somehow linked with the targeted online marketing efforts of colleges. Many colleges this year emailed priority application offers (some more than 5 times) by the droves to students, waiving application fees, offering expedited decisions and so forth. This was a striking difference from two years ago, when we had a similar student applying.</p>

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<p>for reference, below is a listing compiled at the end of Jan 2008, for the class of 2012, taken from the 2012 thread linked above (post 188)....note than these #'s represent year-over-year increases = %[[total apps 2012/total apps 2011] - 1].</p>

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ranking of Total App increases for selective national schools </p>

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<p>Vanderbilt 30%
Chicago 20%
Harvard 18%
Amherst 17%
Yale 17%
Georgetown 16%
Northwestern 14%
Richmond 13%
Princeton 12%
Dartmouth 11%
Williams 11%
RPI 10%
Swarthmore 9%
Brown 8%
Cornell 8%
Middlebury 7%
MIT 7%
Duke 5%
Will & Mary 5%
Columbia 4%
Virginia 4%
Stanford 3%
NYU 0% ?
Penn 0%

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<p>lets see how the annual changes take shape this year....I suspect reports will probably start rolling out early next week.</p>

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<p>fromthesouth-
I think you have a typo in post #4- Tulane had over 34,000 (not 24,00) apps. last year (which was a 100% increase from the previous year.. by far the biggest jump)</p>

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<p>No, I meant at the same point that they received over 32K this year. Last year they had over 34,000 total apps yes, but I mean 24,000 at that certain point.</p>

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<p>Ahh, thanks for clarifying. And wow. I wonder if they will cut off the applications like they did last year. And I am glad to see that Hurricane Gustav wasn't too big of a deterrant this year.</p>

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<p>Of course, what would also be interesting to note is average number of applications per student.</p>

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<p>^agreed. Especially when you consider how many fees were waived for whatever reason. But you'd also have to see how many more applications the schools who did the waving received. ANd what will be most telling, of course, is how that increases or improves their yield, if it does at all.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth was actually up 17% last year...the 11% number quoted in the Yale Daily News last year was incorrect...</p>

<p>ivysuccess.com/dartmouth_2012.html</p>

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<p>ED apps up, RD apps down (so far).......hmmm, wonder if this is a trend?</p>

<p>Fewer</a> apply to private colleges - MLive.com</p>

<p>Kalamazoo

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Kalamazoo College, like some other private colleges around the country, has seen a drop in the overall flow of applications compared to this time last year. </p>

<p>There's been good news and bad news at ``K.''

Early-decision applications have doubled at the liberal-arts school with nearly 1,400 students. The number of ``early action'' applicants -- those who learn about acceptance to K just before Christmas -- was up 16 percent.

But, overall, applications so far are down 14 percent.

It's always a concern to see numbers down,'' said Eric Staab, the college's dean of admission.As a tuition-driven institution, you are very concerned about it when your numbers aren't looking as good.'' [/quote]

Colby

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``I've been doing this a long time, and I don't remember a year when applications started out behind and didn't end up behind,'' said Steve Thomas, director of admissions at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where early decision applications were higher than usual but regular applications are running about 14 percent behind.

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<p>Gettysburg

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At Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where early decision applications were up, regular applications are down about 15 percent, said Gail Sweezey, the director of admissions.

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<p>emory ed apps? anyone?</p>

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<p>I have seen no Emory ED reports for this year. Based upon publishing dates of prior-year Emory admissions reports and the fact that Emory has an ED2, I think the earliest we'll hear something official about ED numbers is February, probably coinciding with total apps reporting.....& I'd bet they do not separately report ED1 and ED2....sorry!</p>

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<p>MIT: preliminary 'at least' ~+12% growth in RD apps (by my calculation)</p>

<p>540</a> Accepted Out of 5,019 Applicants in a Record-Setting Year - The Tech</p>

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A storm of regular applications caused the admissions office to extend the deadline to Jan. 3. Though they have not all been counted, Schmill said he is confident MIT received at least 15,000 applications, a significant increase over the 13,396 regular applications last year.

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<p>more on MIT....doing the math to tally Total Apps (EA + RD), I come up with a Total App increase of (at least) 15.6% over last year, thus far in the count.</p>

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<p>The Brown web site states that "nearly 25,000 applications were received." This would indicate approximately a 20% increase for Brown.</p>

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<p>while we are waiting for US school reports to start coming in....</p>

<p>.....appears that Canada is seeing the same public school application pickup, as one would expect. Ontario public colleges had a 10% increase in apps for their spring term:
CNW</a> Group | COLLEGES ONTARIO | Colleges experience major jump in applications</p>

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<p>....running about +3% in apps</p>

<p>BUT, enrollment will be cut down 6% across the UC's</p>

<p>UC</a> to set limits on freshmen enrollment | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times</p>

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University of California officials today proposed reducing freshmen enrollment for next fall by 2,300 students, or about 6%, to cope with what they said was insufficient state funding.</p>

<p>Enrollment would not be cut at UCLA and UC Berkeley, the most popular campuses, and expansion would continue at UC Merced, the newest school, according to the plan that is to be reviewed by the UC regents next week. The other six undergraduate campuses would see some freshman reductions.

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