<p>At parent’s weekend in November, a Dean noted the increase in the number of ED applicants and stated that the number of ED admits would decrease for the class of 2014. I think he also noted that the class size for the '14s would be smaller. Makes sense given the current frosh over enrollment of 115 still impacts housing next year. This year, frosh were housed in the Hopkins Inn, some floors of McCoy and in forced triples. Is the Hopkins Inn going to be leased again next year? The '13s have to be housed next year and there are still those extra bodies. Makes sense that the '14s might be a smaller class then. The target number I remember for the '13s was 1234.</p>
<p>Driftwoodparty: not that yr comments or mine would make a difference in JHU admissions strategy this yr, don’t you think you’re being selfish by suggesting a smaller class for this year so that your son or daughter can get the housing? I’d think any parents would hope for a bigger class if his/her son or daughter is an applicant, as well as for all applicants!</p>
<p>This is why I don’t often comment on CC. You have misconstrued my comment. I wasn’t suggesting this. I was reporting what I remembered from a parents weekend panel discussion. Two points. 1. that ED admits would be fewer. and 2. that the '14s might be a smaller class. This thread was trying to determine mathematically how the admit rate might be 17%. If the class is smaller…you do the math. The facts are they have to have the rooms for the extra 115 '13s. Perhaps they’ll lease the Inn again. It has about 62 frosh. I wish you and yours the best of luck.</p>
<p>housing is guaranteed the first two years… there is additional housing for a decent chunk of upperclassmen, should there be space after all the sophomores and freshman are accounted for</p>
<p>… guess what? with '13 over-enrolling, it means there is less on-campus housing for juniors and seniors. This year’s lottery drawing was pretty bad. if you were not in the first 20something groups (so lets say ~ first 80-100 students), you are probably going to live off-campus for the rest of your Hopkins career… there is plenty of housing in the immediate area so it’s not that bad actually, especially when most of your peers will be going through the same situation. to be honest, there are definite perks such as not *having *to leave campus on university breaks/holidays…and despite some price-gouging, it’s noticeably cheaper living off-campus.</p>
<p>from the articles i have read, Hopkins will take great measures to have a normal-sized class (~1235) in order to avoid artificially creating enrollment swings (i.e. if target a smaller-than normal class size for '14, you eventually will have to admit more students once '13 graduates, etc.)</p>
<p>At any rate, this cycle will be the most competitive in Hopkins history…im pretty sure the quality of the applicant pool has increased and not just the quantity… seems like this trend will continue as all the top schools benefit from publishing higher applicant pool totals and lower admit rates, scaring the next crop of seniors into producing stronger applications and applying to more schools.</p>
<p>up 13% is not bad news!! check out UChicago’s situations! o my~</p>
<p>omg… i better get into JHU… especially after getting waitlisted at JHU, everything seems hopeless… :(</p>
<p>Do you mean being waitlisted at WuSTL CC2014er?</p>
<p>I wonder how low the admit rate will be this year…</p>
<p>Application rates are up at every college - I don’t know the exact terminology, but this year is the back end of the kids of the kids of the baby boomers. People aplying for the c/0 2011 was the first wave of a large applicant pool and this year is the end of the larger class sizes. Application rates will go down after this year.</p>
<p>TwizzWhizz11: I don’t think it will go down. Looking at my high school alone, the junior class is much larger than the senior class. The IB class of the junior year has about 80 students compared to 38 in our year. I’m sure all those students will be applying to top universities and the same is probably true around the country for other colleges as well. Population rises every year regardless of the baby boom or whatever and because of this, applicants to top universities will also continue to rise or remain steady.</p>
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<p>I think the general trend, as you said, is that population rates will increase and so will application rates. As for next year compared to this year, it may still be high, but not as high judging from the schools in my district. Obviously a very small sample, but our junior class at my school is something like 700 compared to my graduating class (c/o 2010) of 900+. And the freshman class at my school (c/o 2013) is somewhere in the 700s too.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know for the entire country, but I had a feeling based on where I live that the applicantion rates wouldn’t be as high as this year, but still high. But yes, I think application rates, on the whole, will increase.</p>
<p>Hmm, that seems like the exact opposite trend for us. But I live in southern California so maybe that’s why. I’ll use the IB class as an example again (school follows similar trend). 38 IB Seniors (total 572 seniors), ~80 IB Juniors (~700-800 juniors), ~120 IB sophomores, (~800-900 sophomores), ~160 IB freshmen (~1000 freshman). I guess southern California has a different trend due to our extremely high population ins such a small area.</p>
<p>All I know is I’m happy to be graduating this year because many of the difficult teachers retired or moved to teaching seniors only so all the juniors have extremely inflated GPAs as opposed to our class in which no one has a 4.0. Seems like next year will be even more difficult to get into a good college from my high school.</p>
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<p>I was probably too quick to assume the trend in CO is the same for the entire US. 
I’m sure location and demographics have something to do with whether the spike ends here or whether it sustains.
I guess I should phrase it as such: I wouldn’t be suprised if there was a decrease in application rates from this year to the next, but if that number was still larger then years prior. Not a definite statement, just a personal opinion. :D</p>
<p>Haha, well living in a city where 2/5 (based on 2000 census before the huge housing boom here) of the population is under the age of 18 doesn’t help me (~200,000 total).</p>