<p>As was pointed out in another thread, colleges manipulate the application numbers in at least three ways: 2 part applications (if you just submit, in essence, an inquiry card, you can be counted as an applicant; free applications; counting spring applicants (but not spring admits - very tricky and, perhaps, evil). </p>
<p>A little self serving here, but if one had the time I'd look at application increases over 2 - 3 years to scrub out any one time changes in such practices (I say self serving since Mason had a 24% increase in application last year!).</p>
<p>Since a question came up on my post #12 above, let me also explain one thing to US students who may wish to go to a UK university for a law degree. </p>
<p>In the US, the bar exam requires one to focus on four subjects: torts and contracts, criminal procedure, American consitutional law, and American civil procedure. While you will get an excellent education on the first two of these in a UK law course, you will get the education on the remaining two areas only if you take additional course materials while at the UK law school, or upon returning to the US. Without such additional coursework (or without studying this area in detail on one's own time), one is likely to fail the bar exam in any US state. Also, it needs to be noted that even the first two areas have very slight differences in law between how things are handled in the US and how things are handled internationally.</p>
<p>This needs to be considered if one plans to go to a UK law school and then return to the US to practice law. </p>
<p>P.S. Please note that I am not a lawyer, have not studied law, and am not attempting to provide any legal advice here.</p>
<p>--Top 19 Undergraduate Producers of Ph.D Recipients in the Life and Physical Sciences (per 1000 undergrad students)<br>
--Drawn from NSF data covering 1997-2006 </p>
<p>BEST SCHOOLS TO STUDY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES </p>
<p>--Top 19 Undergraduate Producers of Ph.D Recipients in the Social Sciences and Humanities (per 1000 undergrad students)<br>
--Drawn from NSF data covering 1997-2006 </p>
<p>Dartmouth College $58,000 $134,000
Princeton University $66,500 $131,000
Yale University $59,100 $126,000
Harvard University $63,400 $124,000
University of Pennsylvania $60,900 $120,000
Cornell University $60,300 $110,000
Brown University $56,200 $109,000
Columbia University $59,400 $107,000</p>
<p>collegehelp I know that this year Berkeley 75 percentile in Math was not 740 but 770.. which is quite impressive considering the size of its incoming class...damn I'm gonna hate my upcoming math class ):</p>
<p>Following rankings are based on 2007-2008 tuition rates.</p>
<p>Highest Tuition:</p>
<p>College
1. George Washington $39,210
2. Bucknell $37,934
3. University of Richmond $37,610
4. Colgate $37,405
5. Sarah Lawrence College $37,230
6. Tulane $36,610
7. Wesleyan University $36,536
8. Hamilton College $36,500
9. Bowdoin College $36,370
10. Carnegie Mellon $35,984
11. Penn $35,916
12. Johns Hopkins $35,900
13. Bennington College $35,850
14. Tufts University $35,842
15. Brown $35,584
16. Vassar College $35,570
17. NYU $35,283
18. USC $35,212
19. Notre Dame $35,190
20. Dartmouth $35,178</p>