Research on average number of applications per student?

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<p>I'm looking for some research (or a good guess :-) on what is the average number of college applications submitted per student and if/how that has changed in recent years. Any ideas?</p>

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<p>You'd need to hunt down some comprehensive surveys to be statistically relevant. I don't know where you'd get this however: I wish I could help.</p>

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<p>See if this NACAC publication has what you are looking for. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/4B4C0DF4-BF0A-4B10-89F4-A3D631061305/0/06StateofCollegeAdmissionpdf.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nacacnet.org/NR/rdonlyres/4B4C0DF4-BF0A-4B10-89F4-A3D631061305/0/06StateofCollegeAdmissionpdf.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I am pretty sure that's a CIRP question (on the Freshman Survey). I am sure you could find it in any hard copy of "The American College Freshman" but I don't think that particular question is discussed in any online briefs.</p>

<p>The number is out there, and it may be cited somewhere, for whatever that is worth.</p>

<p>ASQ ask the question, too, but I've not seen any national reports and that's a survey that's given more pell-mell than CIRP's College Freshman survey is.</p>

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<p>There was also a poll thread about this on CC before... But that's out of the CC population and the um... biases and incomplete sampling can be pretty distracting.</p>