<p>Total # of Applicants for the Class of 2013:</p>
<p>Wesleyan - 10,068
Colgate - 7,814
Amherst - 7,679
Vassar - 7,577
Bucknell - 7,572
Holy Cross - 7,227
Middlebury - 6,904
Pomona - 6,149
Williams - 6,017
Swat - 5,575</p>
<p>By endowments, SAT ranges, student-teacher ratios, average financial aid awards, underrepresented enrollments? </p>
<p>Nah.</p>
<p>I’d argue Wellesley and Smith to be added</p>
<p>However class size is not accounted for. Wesleyan, Colgate, Holy Cross and Bucknell are twice the size of the others.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Pomona and Swathmore are near big cities which is a plus for many students.</p>
<p>Total # of Applicants for the Class of 2013:</p>
<p>Wesleyan - 10,068
Colgate - 7,814
Amherst - 7,679
Vassar - 7,577
Bucknell - 7,572
Holy Cross - 7,227
Middlebury - 6,904
Pomona - 6,149
Williams - 6,017
Swat - 5,575
Wellesley - 4,125
Smith - 4,008</p>
<p>In some ways, this list is apples and oranges since it includes schools that don’t require any supplemental essays and schools that do. A school that will just take the common app with no extra work required will always get more applicants - even if many aren’t serious ones. For example, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Holy Cross, and maybe some others on the above list reportedly do not ask for any supplemental essays.</p>
<p>Just for one example, Bucknell saw its number of applicants fall by over 1000 last year when it began to require its own essays. However its yield went way up, since more of the applicants had serious interest.</p>
<p>Wesleyan - 10,068
Colgate - 7,814
Amherst - 7,679
Vassar - 7,577
Bucknell - 7,572
Holy Cross - 7,227
Middlebury - 6,904
Pomona - 6,149
Williams - 6,017
Swat - 5,575
Colorado College 5,342 (for 2012)
Macalester College 5,041 (for 2012)
Carleton College 4,784
Davidson 4,493
Wellesley - 4,125
Smith - 4,008
Grinnell - 3,807
Whitman 3,437
Reed 3,159
Oberlin ??</p>
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<p>Middlebury has required a supplemental essay for years. This fall, however, they will not require a supplemental essay.</p>
<p>USNA - 10,960 (for 2012)<br>
USMA - 10,133 (for 2012 )</p>
<p>Where’s Bowdoin?</p>
<p>Adding Bowdoin</p>
<p>Wesleyan - 10,068
Colgate - 7,814
Amherst - 7,679
Vassar - 7,577
Bucknell - 7,572
Holy Cross - 7,227
Middlebury - 6,904
Pomona - 6,149
Williams - 6,017
Bowdoin - 5,940
Swat - 5,575
Colorado College 5,342 (for 2012)
Macalester College 5,041 (for 2012)
Carleton College 4,784
Davidson 4,493
Wellesley - 4,125
Smith - 4,008
Grinnell - 3,807
Whitman 3,437
Reed 3,159
Oberlin ??</p>
<p>Popular LAC = Oxymoron</p>
<p>Actually not so FLVADAD if you define your subset. Not popular to the masses, like a big state school, yes. But many of the top students in the country apply to both top LAC’s and top nationals. </p>
<p>So popular is a relative term. Given, what seems, the population of those who regularly participate in CC discussions, no, popular LAC is not an oxymoron.</p>
<p>In other word, your comment has no relevance here. : )</p>
<p>conn college: 4,733
trinity college (CT); 5,136</p>
<p>Whereever ya’ll are finding all the data, would you mind going ahead and adding the number accepted if you see it?</p>
<p>NYU is a popular and excellent school, garnering 37,000+ applications this year. You could create a list of top universities and place NYU ahead of Harvard–poor old boy can’t seem to break 30,000–and allow the implications to fall where they may.</p>
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<p>Lol, I was wondering how long it would take for that comment to draw a reaction from someone here on CC. Of course, in general society most people just ask “What’s an LAC?” </p>
<p>Ah, just being a little tongue-n-cheek. Yes, I understand that once you narrow it down to certain subsets LACs are VERY popular (I personally love em, even graduated from one). Same is true with a lot of things the masses may generally know little about. However, if you have to start breaking it down into little subsets I think that undermines the notion of popularity somewhat. But as you said, it’s a relative term. Believe me, I get it.</p>
<p>I actually suspected that FLVADAD, that is why I put the : ). </p>
<p>Obviously, depending on the population determines what is popular.</p>
<p>Bucknell, Holy Cross, and Colgate are members of Div1 Patriot League. HC and Colgate are the 2 schools that have played the Ivies in most sports for over 100 years-which is a good feature for students and alumni.</p>