<p>Applications</a> Surge to Berkeley and Virginia, Slow to Columbia and Middlebury - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>Wow, Grinnell is way up this year, 2,969--> 4,515. Probably due to increased international apps because of their FA policy?</p>
<p>Berkeley and Virginia are also up, each with a ~17% increase. In-state tuition perks?</p>
<p>Columbia, Tufts, Middlebury, Amherst, and Penn are down.</p>
<p>Middlebury is up 4.6 percent. Look at the numbers in the chart.</p>
<p>Good call. NYT corrected its error: “The earlier post, and the accompanying chart, also reported, erroneously, that Middlebury College had a 4.56 percent drop in applications; in fact, its applications increased by that percentage.”</p>
<p>Wow…that is an incredible amount of apps to UC Berkeley…and UCLA…over 70,000 apps…</p>
<p>This will help the rankings… :)</p>
<p>It should not help the rankings for Berkeley, if they make the school report the correct numbers. </p>
<p>PS Some of the Choice numbers are way off. Smith College had 4128 applications last year.</p>
<p>About six months ago, there was a front page article in The New York Times about Grinnell, and the fact that tons of Chinese students are applying there, with 800 Math SAT scores.</p>
<p>A front page article in The New York Times is rather expensive free publicity/advertising.</p>
<p>Now I don’t feel so bad about S2’s last minute decision NOT to apply to Grinnell! Seriously, I wonder what percent were internationals?</p>
<p>Take the early news with a grain of salt. It is not the first time that Grinnell reports fantastic numbers that never are confirmed.</p>
<p>Gosh, I wonder if the Chinese are finally waking up to the importance of getting a liberal arts education.</p>
<p>Just the relatively higher impact of a small absolute increases on a small base.</p>
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expensive in what way? </p>
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really? recently? they’ve had two changes of Admissions VP in the last 5 years or so, and a new President just in his second year. so if it happened before, you can be pretty sure that is not the case this time. </p>
<p>yes, there probably was a big surge in international apps, but I’m betting there was a significant increase in domestic apps as well. things are changing at Grinnell, all for the good. actually it’s not that Grinnell is changing - it’s already an incredible school with fabulous faculty, low student:faculty ratio, great faciilties, and a generous, truly need-blind financial aid policy. what has improved under President Kington is Grinnell’s ability and willingness to tell its story, to shake off its midwest modesty. as an alum, I’m happy to see the change.</p>
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<p>Other than the increase in 800 math SAT scorers…this isn’t a new phenomenon. </p>
<p>There was a sizable Chinese/East Asian international student population at Oberlin College back when I attended in the mid-late '90s. Granted, a part of that had to do with Oberlin’s past historical links with China* and the Conservatory. </p>
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<li>Oberlin sent lots of graduates as missionaries/educators to China in the late 19th and early 20th century. H.H. Kung, Nationalist China’s Commerce/Finance Minister and Premier between the late '20s and late '30s was an Obie(1906).</li>
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<p>Grinnell finally getting the recognition it deserves, IMO.</p>
<p>^^ this is when CC needs a “Like” button :)</p>
<p>and in my list of all things great about Grinnell, I should have included the amazing students, Kudryavka :)</p>
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<p>No perks, but lowered admission standards (subject tests no longer required).</p>
<p>The increase from instaters is only 5% at Cal and 7% at UCLA. OOS and International apps have doubled over the past two years, and now exceed 20k at each campus (many of the same applicants?)</p>
<p>Sorry I had to do the math. That means Grinnel’s acceptance rate (assuming they accept the same number of students as last year) will go from 51% to 34%. Wow… That’s a huge jump.</p>
<p>Xiggi…it will help both UCLA and Berkeley with the rankings if they take wealthier students with higher SAT scores…who are more likely to graduate in 4 years or 4 to 6 years…whatever it is…and they reject more students…</p>
<p>I think the above is true…I have to admit I am not paying that much attention anymore… :)</p>
<p>I just wanted go really post…wow…look at that number of apps…i just couldn’t help myself with the rankings comment. :)</p>
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<p>Pretty sure Grinnell’s acceptance rate is like 43%.</p>
<p>Also, Grinnell’s yield last year was higher than predicted, making the class of 2015 very large. If they admit the same number of students as last year, the admission rate would be about 27%. It could be even lower if they predict a higher yield and admit less students.</p>
<p>I’m looking at the increase at UChicago, and am wondering how much of that increase was due to the marketing campaign there–my son must have gotten 5-6 solicitations from them.</p>