Apps to Grinnell up 52%; Columbia, Tufts down- NYT The Choice

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<p>Interesting how the 2011 numbers shift slightly between reporting years: [Applications</a> Rise (Yet Again) at Dozens of Selective Colleges - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/total-apps-2011/]Applications”>Applications Rise (Yet Again) at Dozens of Selective Colleges - The New York Times) </p>

<p>If the numbers reported by The Times a year ago are correct, 2012 would make the fourth consecutive year of 10,000+ applications to Wesleyan, making it the most popular of the USNews National Liberal Arts Colleges.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan has no supplemental essay. I think that definitely has to be factored in to put in context the large number of applications they receive. Easy to “throw one in”, so to speak…</p>

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<p>Harvard has no supp essay, either. Will be interesting to see how that “easy to throw one in” works in their case.</p>

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<p>That chart is very limited and doesn’t cover many schools. It would be more interesting to see more than a selected 100 schools covered. Many NY residents attend UW-Madison, for example, so that school would be of interest in their readership area. Perhaps some schools don’t have the data available at this time of year.</p>

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<p>Although Wesleyan got close to 10,000 applications last year, it “only” reached the total of 9,658. Wesleyan had 10,657 applications in 2010 and 9,658 in the Fall of 2011. </p>

<p>No matter how we look at it, 10,000 applications represent an extremely high number of applications for a school that admits about 2300 students and enrolls about 800 per year. </p>

<p>See <a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/data-sets/cds2011-12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/data-sets/cds2011-12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>They included UW last year and likely will this year when apps have closed on 2/1.</p>

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<p>The Grande Dame has spoken. Applications are flat at Harvard.</p>

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<p>Wow columbia dropped a fair amount, and carnegie mellon went up :&lt;/p>