<p>The USC Chronicle reported freshmen applications were up slightly from last year’s number of 35,753. The targeted freshmen class number is 2600. Applications from the northeastern states increased significantly. Applicant pool SAT scores were up by 20 points. USC does not have ED, EA or use the common application.</p>
<p>Although a large number of students enroll in the Marshall School of Business and the Viterbi School of Engineering 18% of the student body are in the arts.</p>
<p>I have seen some posts here (including mine) noting that applications from foreigners are up this year. Some have posted that this is great since they pay full freight. (Actually, I don’t think that is completely true since some collges give even foreigners some financial aid). Maybe it’s good to have foreigners in our schools to get their money and so that our kids have a diverse college, but back when I was in college (I am MIT '78), there was a group of foreign students (about 30 I think) who I am SURE were paying full freight. They were all students in one particular major. There were some protests on campus about them, but ultimately, with time, the fuss died down and I suppose they all graduated and are back at home abroad and have been practicing for 30 years what they learned here in the U.S. at MIT. Punchline: they were all from Iran and they were all majoring in nuclear engineering. TRUE STORY.</p>
<p>Adding Fordham University: 27,377 total applications as of Feb 1, 2010,
representing a 14%increase over last year, and the 19th consecutive year of applicant increases, and a 17% increase in EA applications (Fordham does not have ED), and 26% increase in International applications.</p>
<p>American +12%
Bowdoin +1%
Brown +20%
U of California System +2%
Cal State System +50%
Chicago +42%
U Conn +1%
Connecticut College +10%
Cornell +5%
Dartmouth +4%
Delaware +7%
DePauw +18%
Drexel +19%
Duke +11%
Fordham +14%
George Washington +3%
Georgia Tech +13%
Harvard +5%
Hawaii-Manoa +25%
Illinois Urbana-Champaign +3%
Hopkins +13%
Loyola (MD) +30%
UMBC +5%
Maryland-College park “down”
Middlebury +15%
UMN Twin Cities +10%
MIT +5%
Mount Holyoke College + 8.6 %
NYU +2.3%
Northwestern +9%
Penn State +4%
Penn +17%
Princeton +19%
Richmond +9%
Rutgers +5%
Stanford +5%
Swarthmore +8%
Temple -11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1)
Vanderbilt +13%
Vassar +3%
Villanova +10%
Virginia +3%
Washington and Lee +6%
Wesleyan +6%
Whitman (no change)
Willamette +30%
Williams +3%
Yale -0.7%</p>
<p>“… I suppose they all graduated and are back at home abroad and have been practicing for 30 years what they learned here in the U.S. at MIT. Punchline: they were all from Iran and they were all majoring in nuclear engineering.”</p>
<p>I wonder if any of them survived the revolution’s purge of the Shah’s intellectuals.</p>
<p>As an alumni of Muhlenberg College I received an email today regarding the health of their endowment fund and an update that regular decision applications are up 4% but early decision apps are down about 10% due to financial aid offers being part of the decison process.</p>
<p>do you think these numbers will be sustained for next year?</p>
<p>Adding Columbia: [Ivies</a> see rise in total applications | The Daily Pennsylvanian](<a href=“http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/ivies-see-rise-total-applications]Ivies”>http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/article/ivies-see-rise-total-applications)</p>
<p>American +12%
Bowdoin +1%
Brown +20%
U of California System +2%
Cal State System +50%
Chicago +42%
Columbia +4%
U Conn +1%
Connecticut College +10%
Cornell +5%
Dartmouth +4%
Delaware +7%
DePauw +18%
Drexel +19%
Duke +11%
Fordham +14%
George Washington +3%
Georgia Tech +13%
Harvard +5%
Hawaii-Manoa +25%
Illinois Urbana-Champaign +3%
Hopkins +13%
Loyola (MD) +30%
UMBC +5%
Maryland-College park “down”
Middlebury +15%
UMN Twin Cities +10%
MIT +5%
Mount Holyoke College + 8.6 %
NYU +2.3%
Northwestern +9%
Penn State +4%
Penn +17%
Princeton +19%
Richmond +9%
Rutgers +5%
Stanford +5%
Swarthmore +8%
Temple -11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1)
Vanderbilt +13%
Vassar +3%
Villanova +10%
Virginia +3%
Washington and Lee +6%
Wesleyan +6%
Whitman (no change)
Willamette +30%
Williams +3%
Yale -0.7%</p>
<p>I’ve added UCLA. [The</a> Daily Bruin | UC applications increase 2.4 percent from last fall](<a href=“http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/1/20/uc-applications-increase-24-percent-last-fall/]The”>http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/1/20/uc-applications-increase-24-percent-last-fall/)</p>
<p>-11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Union
+3% Virginia
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>I noticed that Columbia was missing in post #108 above. Please try to keep the data together.</p>
<p>American +12%
Bowdoin +1%
Brown +20%
U of California System +2%
Cal State System +50%
Chicago +42%
Columbia +4%
U Conn +1%
Connecticut College +10%
Cornell +5%
Dartmouth +4%
Delaware +7%
DePauw +18%
Drexel +19%
Duke +11%
Fordham +14%
George Washington +3%
Georgia Tech +13%
Harvard +5%
Hawaii-Manoa +25%
Illinois Urbana-Champaign +3%
Hopkins +13%
Loyola (MD) +30%
UMBC +5%
Maryland-College park “down”
Middlebury +15%
UMN Twin Cities +10%
MIT +5%
Mount Holyoke College + 8.6 %
NYU +2.3%
Northwestern +9%
Penn State +4%
Penn +17%
Princeton +19%
Richmond +9%
Rutgers +5%
Stanford +5%
Swarthmore +8%
Temple -11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1)
UCLA +2.4%
Vanderbilt +13%
Vassar +3%
Villanova +10%
Virginia +3%
Washington and Lee +6%
Wesleyan +6%
Whitman (no change)
Willamette +30%
Williams +3%
Yale -0.7%</p>
<p>I’ve added Lafayette College (up 3%) and put Columbia University (+4%) back in as well:</p>
<p>-11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Virginia
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>what would be interesting is to see the increase in number of schools to which students apply -</p>
<p>students are not as discerning in choosing schools as they once were…</p>
<p>Does anyone have information on Georgetown?</p>
<p>When the schools are listed by percentage some of them are missing. I will add Willamette back in.</p>
<p>-11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Virginia
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+30% Willamette
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>Concerndad, great story, lol! They are probably the one building Iran’s nuclear arsenal!!!</p>
<p>added Syracuse - +9% (22,500 applications for Fall 2010)
[SU</a> receives record number of applications for fall 2010](<a href=“http://www.syr.edu/news/articles/2010/undergraduate-applications-02-10.html]SU”>http://www.syr.edu/news/articles/2010/undergraduate-applications-02-10.html)</p>
<p>SU receives record number of applications for fall 2010
"Applications for fall 2001 numbered about 12,900; by 2005, applications had grown to nearly 14,300. Today, that same number is almost double at about 22,500. "</p>
<p>-11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Virginia
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+9% Syracuse
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+30% Willamette
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>Anyone know about Oberlin?</p>
<p>Add William and Mary: [William</a> & Mary - A record year for undergraduate applications](<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2010/wm-receives-record-number-of-applications-for-class-of-2014-123.php]William”>A record year for undergraduate applications | William & Mary)
Changed Virginia from 3% to 4% per: [U.Va</a>. Receives Record Number of Applications](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10756]U.Va”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10756)</p>
<p>11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+3% College of William and Mary
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+4% Virginia
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+9% Syracuse
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+30% Willamette
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>I’ll have to check the info I received, but Carleton received about 50 more applications than last year - roughly a 1% increase. And WPI is reporting a 6% increase over last year (13% increase in applications from females!).</p>
<p>MHC was missing from this list.</p>
<p>11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+3% College of William and Mary
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+4% Virginia
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+8.6% Mount Holyoke College
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+9% Syracuse
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+30% Willamette
+42% Chicago</p>
<p>NYU and Fordham are missing. They are in the alphabetical list. I’m adding them back in. I think there are many more colleges that experienced decreases; they just don’t want to announce the decline. </p>
<p>11% (vs. this time last year – deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+2.3% NYU
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+3% College of William and Mary
+4% Columbia University
+4% Dartmouth
+4% Penn State
+4% Virginia
+5% Cornell
+5% Harvard
+5% MIT
+5% Rutgers
+5% Stanford
+5% UMBC
+5% Washington University in St. Louis
+6% Washington and Lee
+6% Wesleyan
+7% Delaware
+8% Swarthmore
+8.6% Mount Holyoke College
+9% Northwestern
+9% Richmond
+9% Rice
+9% RPI
+9% Syracuse
+10% Connecticut College
+10% Tulane
+10% UMN Twin Cities
+10% Villanova
+11% Duke
+12% American
+12% Cal Poly SLO
+13% Georgia Tech
+13% Hopkins
+13% Vanderbilt
+14% Fordham
+14% Miami (FL)
+15% Middlebury
+16% Carnegie Mellon
+17% Penn
+18% DePauw
+19% Drexel
+19% Princeton
+20% Brown
+25% Hawaii-Manoa
+28% Cal State System
+30% Loyola (MD)
+30% Willamette
+42% Chicago</p>