Total Applications Growth/Decline, class of 2017

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<p>revision</p>

<p>Williams -3.1% (6,853)
[Williams</a> College Admits 1,157 Students for Class of 2017 | Office of Communications](<a href=“http://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/3_27_2013_admits/]Williams”>Williams College Admits 1,157 Students for Class of 2017 – Office of Communications)</p>

<p>[side note- I didn’t realize Williams apparently superscores the ACT]</p>

<p>Bowdoin +5.0% (7,052)
<a href=“http://bowdoinorient.com/article/8135[/url]”>http://bowdoinorient.com/article/8135&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>how did I miss this haircut?</p>

<p>Yale +2.2% (29,610)…down from prior report of 29,790
[Admit</a> rate falls to all-time low | Cross Campus](<a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2013/03/28/admit-rate-falls-to-all-time-low/]Admit”>Admit rate falls to all-time low - Yale Daily News)</p>

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<p>revision…up a bit</p>

<p>William & Mary +2.7% (14,035)
[The</a> college denial letter - The Washington Post](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-college-denial-letter/2013/03/31/fb738cf8-9947-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html]The”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-college-denial-letter/2013/03/31/fb738cf8-9947-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html)</p>

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<p>another haircut…</p>

<p>Georgetown -1.1% (~19,900) [from -0.12% and 20,025 apps reported previously]
page 2: [The</a> college denial letter - The Washington Post](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-college-denial-letter/2013/03/31/fb738cf8-9947-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story_1.html]The”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-college-denial-letter/2013/03/31/fb738cf8-9947-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story_1.html)</p>

<p>last year’s app total = 20,115
[Student</a> Profile - Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/firstyear/studentprofile/]Student”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/firstyear/studentprofile/)</p>

<p>Not sure why this Feb 2013 article says '16 apps were 20,050. If that’s the right number then for apps decline would be -0.75%, but I will stick with what is on the official Georgetown website.
[Regular</a> Decision Applications Plateau](<a href=“http://www.thehoya.com/regular-decision-applications-plateau-1.2982872]Regular”>http://www.thehoya.com/regular-decision-applications-plateau-1.2982872)</p>

<p>[Their CDS site is not up to date, so that’s no help either: <a href=“http://oads.georgetown.edu/facts/cds/[/url]”>About | Office of Assessment and Decision Support | Georgetown University]</p>

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<p>Tufts up another 10</p>

<p>Tufts +12.5% (18,420)
[Tufts</a> Class of 2017 by the Numbers](<a href=“http://blogs.tuftsdaily.com/?p=10358]Tufts”>http://blogs.tuftsdaily.com/?p=10358)</p>

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<p>U Florida ~-1.5% (~27,000)
[University</a> of Florida accepts 12,000 new students | WUFT News](<a href=“http://www.wuft.org/news/2013/02/08/decision-day/]University”>University of Florida accepts 12,000 new students - WUFT News)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 27,419 [University</a> of Florida - Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.ir.ufl.edu/OIRApps/commondataset/c_ftic_admission.aspx]University”>University of Florida - Common Data Set)</p>

<p>Macalester +11.0% (6,696)
[Class</a> Profile - Welcome Admitted Students - Macalester College](<a href=“http://www.macalester.edu/admissions/admittedstudents/classprofile/]Class”>http://www.macalester.edu/admissions/admittedstudents/classprofile/)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 6,030 [Macalester</a> Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.macalester.edu/ir/cds/cds.htm#CCC]Macalester”>http://www.macalester.edu/ir/cds/cds.htm#CCC)</p>

<p>Revision-
Penn +0.20% (31,280)
[The</a> Daily Pennsylvanian :: Penn admit rate drops to record-low 12.1 percent](<a href=“http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/03/51549ac80b536]The”>Penn admit rate drops to record-low 12.1 percent | The Daily Pennsylvanian)</p>

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<p>Whitman -5.4%* (~2,700)
[CONGRATULATIONS</a>! | Whitman College Admission Blog](<a href=“http://whitadmit.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2013/03/26/congratulations-3/]CONGRATULATIONS”>CONGRATULATIONS! | Whitman College Admission Blog)
*NOTE- if the reported 2700 does not include ED apps (its not clear), then I have calculated too low a number. Assuming the same ED apps as last year, 148, the growth/decline would be almost 0 at approximately -0.2%. Given the lack of clarity in the text, I am taking an educated guess here- I rarely see RD-only numbers put forth. My apologies to Whitman if I am wrong.</p>

<p>'16 apps= 2,854
<a href=“http://www.whitman.edu/Documents/Offices/Institutional%20Research/Common%20Data%20Set%202012-13%20(resubmit).pdf[/url]”>http://www.whitman.edu/Documents/Offices/Institutional%20Research/Common%20Data%20Set%202012-13%20(resubmit).pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>catch-up</p>

<p>Skidmore +42.7% (8,143)
Northern Kentucky >+30% (no app count)
Clark +29.0% (5,545)
Ohio State +25.6% (35,300)
Case Western +25% (18,226)
UChicago +20% (30,369)
Ohio U +17.4% (20,512)
UCSC +16.9% (38,507)
UC Merced +16.6% (14,966)
Boston U +16.3% (51,197)
U Washington +15.7% (30,073)
UMass Boston +14.7% (8,603)
St Lawrence +14.4% (3,080)
Brandeis +14.2% (9,370)
UCSB +13.9% (62,402)
Ithaca +13.2% (15,641)
UC Riverside +13.2% (33,809)
UC Davis +13.1% (55,877)
Kalamazoo +13% (>2,400)
Tufts +12.5% (18,420)
WPI +12.0% (8,498)
UC Irvine +11.3% (60,619)
NYU +11.2% (48,606) [all campuses including Shanghai & Abu Dhabi]
Alma +11.1% (1,820)
Macalester +11.0% (6,696)
UMass Lowell +11% (7,328)
UCLA +10.8% (80,472)
UCSD +10.8% (67,403)
Babson +10.3% (6,080)
Pepperdine +10% (10,443)
UC Berkeley +9.7% (67,658)
Emerson +9.7% (7,756)
Vanderbilt +9.5% (31,033)
Cal Poly, SLO +9.4% (40,404)
Claremont McKenna +8.9% (5,509)
Lehigh +8.9% (>12,560)
Rochester +8.2% (17,146)
Colgate +7.4% (calc ~8,375)
U Texas >+7.3% (>38,000)
Northeastern +7.0 (47,322)
UVa +6.7% (29,005)
Miami U +6.3% (21,593)
San Diego State is +6.0% (53,760)
St Andrews +6% (14,355)
RPI +~6% (16,112)
Stanford +6.0% (38,828)
Bates +5.9% (5,194)
Cornell +5.8% (40,006)
Trinity +5.7% (7,500)
NC State +5.5% (calc’d to be >21,384, count incomplete)
Wellesley +5.5% (4,794)
Columbia +5.3% (33,531)
Bowdoin +5.0% (7,052)
Fordham +5.0% (35,229)
MIT +~4.9% (almost 18,989)
UMass Amherst +4.8% (36,000)
Wesleyan +4.5% (10,969)
U North Carolina +4.0% (30,689)
U Southern Cal +3.7% (47,800)
Virginia +3.5% (~29,250)
SUNY Binghamton +3.4% (29,089)
Barnard +3.3% (5,609)
Middlebury +3.0% (9,112)
Bryn Mawr >+2.8% (2,700+)
Colby +2.8% (5,390)
Vermont +2.7% (22,277)
William & Mary +2.7% (14,035)
Union +2.5% (5,643)
Olin +2.4% (800)
CU Boulder +2.3% (22,287)
Northwestern +2.2% (32,772)
Yale +2.2% (29,610)
Harvard +2.1% (35,023)
Rice +1.76% (~15,400)
Rhode Island <+1.76% (“close to” 21,000)
Smith +1.4% (4,402)
Emory +0.91% (17,652)
George Washington +0.87% (21,946)
Juilliard +0.82% (2,338)
Brown +0.62% (28,919)
JHU +0.54% (20,613)
Duke +0.53% (31,785)
Swarthmore +0.38% (6,614)
Villanova +0.21% (14,933)
Penn +0.20% (31,280)
Scripps +0.13% (2,376)
Caltech -0.02% (5,536)
Grinnell -0.57% (4,528)
Princeton -0.62% (26,498)
Georgetown -1.1% (~19,900)
Holy Cross -1.3% (7,079)
U Florida ~-1.5% (~27,000)
Harvey Mudd -1.6% (3,537)
Hamilton -1.8% (5,017)
Elon -2.5% (9,791)
Pitzer -2.9% (4,103)
Dartmouth -3.0% (22,416)
Williams -3.1% (6,853)
Bucknell -3.6% (7,834)
Vassar -3.9% (7,600)
Pomona ~-4.8% (~7,100)
Whitman -5.4% (~2,700)
Amherst -7.7% (7,908)
Penn State ~-9% (~43,272, calculated)
SUNY Canton -19.6% (4,276)
Boston College -26.6% (~25,000)</p>

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<p>Erratum – BU numbers back up. I had interpretted a “haircut” in the number of apps based upon a report posted back on post #251. But this latest article below takes their number back up to 52k+ which was the original nujmber a month or two ago.
[BU</a> Class of 2017 a Select Group | BU Today | Boston University](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/bu-class-of-2017-a-select-group/]BU”>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/bu-class-of-2017-a-select-group/)</p>

<p>Upon re-reading the post 251 article, I see that I erred because the 51k apps cited was for RD applicants only, hence, the correct total apps stats are:</p>

<p>BU +19.7% (52,693)</p>

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<p>Washington U SL ~+10% (~30,000)
[Undergraduate</a> applications see 10 percent increase | Student Life<a href=“I%20can’t%20believe%20it!%20%20Actual%20info%20from%20the%20opaque%20WUSL.”>/url</a></p>

<p>SUNY Cortland ~-4.2% (>11,200)
[url=&lt;a href=“detail.dot - SUNY Cortland”&gt;Annual Admissions Open House Set for April 6 - SUNY Cortland]Annual</a> Admissions Open House Set for April 6 - SUNY Cortland](<a href=“http://www.studlife.com/news/2013/03/25/undergraduate-applications-sees-10-percent-increase/]Undergraduate”>Undergraduate applications see 10 percent increase - Student Life)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 11,687 <a href=“http://www2.cortland.edu/dotAsset/aef6877c-60e7-40b3-9bd5-fb95ab87f440.pdf[/url]”>http://www2.cortland.edu/dotAsset/aef6877c-60e7-40b3-9bd5-fb95ab87f440.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Northern Illinois +11% (>18,000)
[Daily</a> Chronicle | NIU sees record number of freshman applications](<a href=“http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/04/01/niu-sees-record-number-of-freshman-applications/a5n9fo8/]Daily”>http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2013/04/01/niu-sees-record-number-of-freshman-applications/a5n9fo8/)
enhanced recruiting: [NIU</a> sees record number of freshman applicants | NIU Today<a href=“no%20CDS%20found”>/url</a> </p>

<p>UT Dallas >+5.9% (>7,500)
[url=&lt;a href=“http://www.utdmercury.com/news/article_2647a1ac-9af7-11e2-8638-0019bb30f31a.html]UTD”&gt;http://www.utdmercury.com/news/article_2647a1ac-9af7-11e2-8638-0019bb30f31a.html]UTD</a> inches closer to reaching Tier One - UTD Mercury | The Student Newspaper of UTD: News](<a href=“http://www.niutoday.info/2013/03/21/niu-sees-record-number-of-freshman-applicants/]NIU”>NIU Today | NIU sees record number of freshman applicants)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 7,079 <a href=“http://www.utdallas.edu/ospa/stats/documents/CDS_2012-13_web.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utdallas.edu/ospa/stats/documents/CDS_2012-13_web.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>tougis- when I get around to re-analyzing the data, I think I will add in a regional segmentation.</p>

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<p>Wisconsin-29,600+. Up from 29,034. Adcom thought it was below expectations due to some staff turnover at critical time in process. </p>

<p><a href=“Error”>https://kb.wisc.edu/admissions/news.php?id=4719&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://apir.wisc.edu/datadigest/201213Digest/digest_13_web.pdf[/url]”>http://apir.wisc.edu/datadigest/201213Digest/digest_13_web.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Good find Barrons, thanks…
Wisconsin >+1.9% (>29,600)</p>

<p>Georgia ~+13.8% (~21,000)
[Advice</a> about the UGA Admission Process: A First Look at 2013 Admitted Freshmen Credentials](<a href=“http://ugaadmissions.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-first-look-at-2013-admitted-freshmen.html]Advice”><data:blog.pageTitle/>)
'16 apps= 18,458 <a href=“http://www.oir.uga.edu/cds/ugacds12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.oir.uga.edu/cds/ugacds12.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>BTW, as the (U.S.) college-going population continues its decline, I think we are going to see more of this kind of recruiting increase:
[Enrollment</a> drops ? again](<a href=“Wichitan online under construction – The Wichitan”>Wichitan online under construction – The Wichitan)

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<p>not too competitive?? [Stanford</a> beats out all of the Ivy League schools by having the toughest admissions rate of all | Mail Online](<a href=“Stanford beats out all of the Ivy League schools by having the toughest admissions rate of all | Daily Mail Online”>Stanford beats out all of the Ivy League schools by having the toughest admissions rate of all | Daily Mail Online)</p>

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<p>Awesome–thanks!</p>

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<p>Carleton reported a 20% increase in applications in its letters to applicants. Here is a reference to that statistic: [Carleton</a> News: Thiboutot Says Carleton Bucks Trend of Admissions Application Fees](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/news/carleton_in_the_media/?story_id=984979]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/news/carleton_in_the_media/?story_id=984979)</p>

<p>Sorry, no explicit counts yet.</p>

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<p>Haven’t seen final numbers yet - and I can’t quite match these up - but it looks like a big increase at Minnesota:</p>

<p>[February</a> 18, 2013 Update](<a href=“http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/counselors/updates/update130218.html]February”>http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/counselors/updates/update130218.html)

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<p><a href=“http://www.oir.umn.edu/static/stsur/cds_2012_2013_TC.pdf[/url]”>http://www.oir.umn.edu/static/stsur/cds_2012_2013_TC.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
'16 applications: 31,874</p>

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<p>

According to the linked CDS, 2016 applications totaled 38,174.</p>

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<p>I’ve been looking for UIUC’s numbers.
Can’t seem to find much though</p>

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<p>Just spent the last 48 hours at UCSB. Applications to the College of Engineering have been increasing about 10% per year for the last 3 years - 10,000 this year for an incoming UG class of 300 (4000 for ME - the most competitive major which is slated to have a freshman class of 65!) . Apps to Letters and Sciences are on the decrease - about 9% less this year. While the app numbers is of interest, the real question, and value to applicants, is what majors are of increasing interest.</p>

<p>From all indications, the last 3 years have seen an huge surge in applications to engineering.</p>

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<p>good stuff, thank you Descartesz & noimagination. Ironically I was looking for Carleton press releases yesterday and Minn releases earlier today without luck. </p>

<p>I will back-calculate the Carleton apps number from their CDS. I think the Minn match up problem relates to what I’ve seen some other big state schools do…they measure apps growth not from last year’s total, but last year’s apps count at that particular calendar date. I will recalculate a conservative % increase (“and counting”) using the 41,000 and the CDS total for '16.</p>

<p>uofiapplicant- based upon the August '12 release of last’s year’s UIUC applications data, I suspect we won’t see anything soon. FYI, here are two articles on last year and some history of acceptance rates:
[UI</a> campuses see record number of applicants - The Daily Illini : Campus](<a href=“http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/article_77880e6b-669c-54c2-ac4d-939d299d1666.html]UI”>http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/article_77880e6b-669c-54c2-ac4d-939d299d1666.html)
[Applications</a> hit record high, but fewer admits enroll at UI - The Daily Illini : Campus](<a href=“http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/article_43e41898-3ea0-11e2-b396-0019bb30f31a.html]Applications”>http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/article_43e41898-3ea0-11e2-b396-0019bb30f31a.html)</p>

<p>slight revision upward
George Washington +1.04% (21,982)
[Admit</a> rate stays at 33 percent for third straight year - The GW Hatchet](<a href=“http://www.gwhatchet.com/2013/04/02/admit-rate-stays-at-33-percent-for-third-straight-year/]Admit”>http://www.gwhatchet.com/2013/04/02/admit-rate-stays-at-33-percent-for-third-straight-year/)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 21,756 <a href=“Institutional Research | The George Washington University”>Institutional Research | The George Washington University;

<p>I will revise the list tomorrow morning.</p>

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<p>

Good catch! I can’t add, apparently.</p>

<p>That should take care of the problem - we’ll see when the final numbers come out.</p>