<p>Middlebury news reports Midd down in apps by 12%, but count still not final.</p>
<p>The same article also reports (misery loves company!) that-
Hamilton apps are down 16%
Colby apps are down 14%</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything about Tufts or JHU?</p>
<p>Rice apps up 12%</p>
<p>Applications</a> for 2013 class surpass 10,000, breaks record - News</p>
<p>[sak09- no word on either Tufts or JHU yet]</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Vassar or Oberlin?</p>
<p>Carleton - student newspaper reported early applications same as last year, no word yet on regular decision.</p>
<p>TCU apps down 7%</p>
<p>Applications</a> dip after removal of simplified application form - News</p>
<p>I am an alum interviewer for Lafayette - the email I received today mentioned a drop from last year's record level of applications, but Admissions was still confident that they would be able to build a good class for '13. I have five interviews to do so far for applicants in my area, had over ten last year..</p>
<p>Baylor-- although this article is a bit cryptic (and looks like it contains a key typo), I could interpret/calculate that Baylor's apps are up ~24% thus far in the count.</p>
<p>From the Boston Globe:</p>
<p>"Applications for Harvard University's fall class rose nearly 6 percent over last year, university officials said this morning.</p>
<p>More than 29,000 students have applied for the Class of 2013. It was the third year in a row that applications have exceeded previous records."</p>
<p>anybody have an idea about Vanderbilt? I saw that they were up 30%! Anyone have any ideas why? - no supplement - the commons -football team? Could that really account for 30%?!</p>
<p>^^^ Are you sure you aren't reading last years Vandy stats? Their numbers went up 30% last year...</p>
<p>What's surprising to me about the Harvard number is that this is only the third year in a row they've set a new record. What the heck happened 3-1/2 years ago for Harvard to have a down year? Was that the middle of the Larry Summers controversies?</p>
<p>Harvard apps growth this year = 5% to 6% (~29,000/27,462)</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: 29,000 High School Seniors Covet Place in the Class of 2013</p>
<p>Santa Clara apps up 3%</p>
<p>Number</a> of applications increases by three percent - News</p>
<p>some updates on a few other schools from this article:
Bloomberg.com:</a> U.S.</p>
<p>MIT: + 17%
Stanford: + 20% ('regular applications' = 30,348....may not be total apps)
Duke: + 17% (23,780 total apps)</p>
<p>Elon total apps down slightly, although early apps up...[a familiar theme]
Pendulum</a> Online</p>
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Dean of Admissions Greg Zaiser supports Murphy’s statements, saying Elon has had more students applying early action and early decision than ever before. However, the number of total applicants might have dipped by “a tiny margin,” but nothing remotely significant.
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<ul>
<li>just reporting on top national universities & LACS, per USNews lists</li>
<li>"~" means the count is projected or incomplete, or I am not sure its final</li>
<li>"+" postive growth over last year</li>
<li>"(#)" negative growth over last year</li>
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<p>Brown ~+20% (very rough)
Carnegie Mellon up maybe<br>
Chicago ~+7%<br>
Colby ~(14%)<br>
Dartmouth +7.5<br>
Duke +17%<br>
Gettysburg ~(15%) (maybe just RD)
Hamilton ~(16%)<br>
Harvard ~+5.6%<br>
Kenyon (10%)<br>
Middlebury ~(12%)<br>
MIT +17%<br>
Notre Dame up slightly
Rice +12%<br>
St Olaf down<br>
Stanford ~+20% (unsure if this is total apps)
UC System ~+3%<br>
UNC +17%<br>
Yale ~+14% (very rough)</p>
<p>Beside the growth of applicants to public universities, seems like national U's have gained applicants for the most part, and national LACs lost applicants.</p>
<p>Oxford undergrad apps up 12%</p>
<p>Cherwell</a> - News - Oxford applications rise but not from disadvantaged backgrounds</p>
<p>Princetons apps +2.3 %</p>
<p>Princeton</a> University - Princeton sets applications record for fifth year in a row</p>
<p>
[quote]
Princeton University for the fifth consecutive year has set a record for students applying for admission, receiving 21,869 applications for the class of 2013. Over the past six years, the University has experienced a 60 percent increase in applications.</p>
<p>The number of applicants for the class of 2013 represents a 2 percent increase over last year's record of 21,370 completed applications for the class of 2012, which had an applicant pool 6 percent larger than for the class of 2011. Applicants for that class were up 8 percent over the applicants for the class of 2010, whose applicant numbers represented a 6 percent increase over those for freshmen for the 2009 class.
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<p>Papa Chicken, according to Wellesley College, the number of applicants is up this year, with 4125 applicants seeking admission (sorry I do not have the last year's numbers for comparison).</p>