Total Applications Growth/Decline, class of 2017

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>UVa revision</p>

<p>Virginia +2.6% (29,005)
[UVa</a> admits 8,528 for the Class of 2017 - Washington DC College admissions | Examiner.com](<a href=“Examiner is back - Examiner.com”>Examiner is back - Examiner.com)</p>

<p>most of UVa’s apps growth comes from out-of-state, a familiar theme

For this year’s class, the total number of applications went up to 29,005, with the number of in-state applicants increasing slightly from 8,788 reported this time last year to 8,831…Yet the bulk of the increase in applications came from out-of-state students who submitted a grand total of 20,174 applications.

</p>

<p>Looks like Michigan is also counting on its out-of-state students…
[University</a> shifts focus to non-resident students in lieu of state funding - The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/news/non-resident-focus]University”>University shifts focus to non-resident students in lieu of state funding)

Out-of-state students constitute 38 percent of the student population — quadruple Michigan State’s 9-percent non-resident population, more than triple University of California, Berkeley’s 10 percent and exceeding the University of Wisconsin’s 25 percent non-resident cap. Paying nearly $39,000 a year in tuition with room and board, these students add $88 million to the University’s general fund annually.</p>

<p>Although the University’s non-resident population has hovered around 35 to 38 percent for the past 10 years, it’s on the rise. Due to financial contributions to the University and the declining number of high-school graduates in the state, non-resident students are a growing demographic on campus.

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<p>I think we are seeing more signs of a nationalization of the market, so to speak, for the high-end state school segment. College-going population is on the decrease, more so in some parts of the country, and the well-known state institutions can reach further to keep their finances and enrollments strong, perhaps at the expense of lower tier regional publics which are scrambling. In any market downturn, marketing efforts tend to increase (e.g., recruiting) and there will be some losers. I also think the common app and improved communication via the web in general have fostered greater “market efficiency” thereby contributing to this nationalization.</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>Carleton +20% (calc’d ~7,030)
'16 apps= 5856 [Carleton</a> College: Institutional Research and Assessment: Common Data Set (CDS)](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ira/basic_carleton_data/CDS1/]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/ira/basic_carleton_data/CDS1/)</p>

<p>UMn
(41,000/38,174)-1= 7.4%, does not = reported 13% (which I believe was the increase year-over-year when reported in Feb)</p>

<p>I will go with this entry:
UMn >+7.4% (>41,000 as of Feb and counting)</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<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)
Carleton +20% (calc’d ~7,030)
UChicago +20% (30,369)
Boston U +19.7% (52,693)
Ohio U +17.4% (20,512)
UCSC +16.9% (38,507)
UC Merced +16.6% (14,966)
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)
Georgia ~+13.8% (~21,000)
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)
Northern Illinois +11% (>18,000)
UMass Lowell +11% (7,328)
UCLA +10.8% (80,472)
UCSD +10.8% (67,403)
Babson +10.3% (6,080)
Pepperdine +10% (10,443)
Washington U SL ~+10% (~30,000)
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)
UMn >+7.4% (>41,000 as of Feb and counting)
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 +6.0% (53,760)
St Andrews +6% (14,355)
RPI +~6% (16,112)
Stanford +6.0% (38,828)
UT Dallas >+5.9% (>7,500)
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)
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)
Virginia +2.6% (29,005)
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)
Wisconsin >+1.9% (>29,600)
Rice +1.76% (~15,400)
Rhode Island <+1.76% (“close to” 21,000)
Smith +1.4% (4,402)
George Washington +1.04% (21,982)
Emory +0.91% (17,652)
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)
SUNY Cortland ~-4.2% (>11,200)
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>

<p>114 schools, median 5.3%-5.5%</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>hmmm… perhaps I am wrong in interpreting that the US college-going population is in decline. At least the latest NACAC seems to say the contrary…</p>

<p>The report (not accessible to non-members like me) [State</a> of College Admission Report](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/research/PublicationsResources/Marketplace/research/Pages/StateofCollegeAdmission.aspx]State”>http://www.nacacnet.org/research/PublicationsResources/Marketplace/research/Pages/StateofCollegeAdmission.aspx)</p>

<p>2 summaries by outside parties:
[NACAC</a> State of College Admissions Report](<a href=“http://paly.net/college/StateOfCollegesAdmissionsReport.php]NACAC”>http://paly.net/college/StateOfCollegesAdmissionsReport.php)
[Study</a> documents admissions trends over last 10 years | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/29/study-documents-admissions-trends-over-last-10-years]Study”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/11/29/study-documents-admissions-trends-over-last-10-years)</p>

<p>excerpt from the Palo Alto HS summary:

High School Graduation and College Enrollment (Chapter 1)</p>

<p>•Number of high school graduates seeking to enter college will remain stable, nationally, until 2021; regionally, the number will increase in the South and West and decrease in the Northeast
•College enrollment was at an all-time high last year (it grew 37% between 2000-2010) and is expected to grow another 14% by 2021

</p>

[ColDad59]

<p>Interesting article here in the Boston Globe.</p>

<p>BC added an additional essay to intentionally reduce the number of applications, which clearly worked.</p>

<p>BU got rid of its essays because they were “too generic, and added little value”, and saw applications skyrocket.</p>

<p>I’m surprised that one essay more or less would have such a dramatic impact on the number of applications.</p>

[ColDad59]

<p>Boston Globe
BC celebrates its decline in applications </p>

<p>BC saw its applications decline by 26 percent after it made a strategic effort to raise admissions requirements. The school added a supplementary essay to its application, university officials said, with a goal of attracting more serious students and deterring less interested ones from applying.</p>

<p>Among area schools that saw an increase in applications this year, Boston University reported a 20 percent jump in applications after it dropped two requirements — a second supplemental essay and the SAT Subject Tests.</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>ColDad59- if you are interested, some additional discussion of the BU/BC ups&downs can be found earlier in this thread…post 5 on, 50’s-70’s and 100’s.</p>

<p>FYI, Skidmore’s huge increase (also discussed elsewhere in this thread) seems to also be in part due to removal of some college-specific questions/essays, in addition to a ramped-up recruiting effort.</p>

[Mastadon]

<p>Here is the recipe for getting your selectivity below 10% (circa 2006) courtesy of Harvard.</p>

<p>For what it’s worth - it kind of looks like a massive sales and marketing campaign to me </p>

<p>This could be considered evidence for the “market saturation” theory Papa Chicken put forth early in this thread. </p>

<p>[Online</a> Extra: How Harvard Gets its Best and Brightest - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

[Mastadon]

<p>The link I posted seems to be flakey - here are the highlights and a re-post of the link</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Direct Mail Campaign
“The first phase begins in the spring, when Harvard mails letters to a staggering 70,000-or-so high school juniors—all with stellar test scores—suggesting they consider applying to America’s best-known college. Harvard buys their names from the College Board (which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT) and ACT Inc. (which administers the college-admission test that’s more popular in the Midwest).”</p></li>
<li><p>Direct Sales Campaign
“Each year, Harvard’s admissions team tours 140 cities along with four other elite colleges—Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, and the University of Pennsylvania. But Harvard also visits hundreds of other places on its own. In the past year, for instance, members of the admissions team have gone to cities in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Far East. This year, 10% of the admitted students came from abroad.”</p></li>
<li><p>Indirect Sales Campaign
“In addition to his staff of 35, Fitzsimmons enlists Harvard’s coaches and professors to look for talent. The math department, for instance, starts to identify budding math geniuses by keeping a close eye on kids doing well in math contests.”
“Harvard students also get into the act. Since 2003, Harvard has hired 15 to 20 low-income students to call and e-mail promising low-income high school students. Their job: to counter the “impression that Harvard is only for the rich and elite,” says Fitzsimmons.”
“Fitzsimmons dispatches an army of some 8,000 alumni volunteers into the field. Their job is to identify and recruit promising high school students where they live. Later, they also interview nearly all applicants.”</p></li>
<li><p>Tele Sales Campaign
“Once the final decisions have been made, Fitzsimmons and his team move to phase three: an all-out push to convince the chosen few to attend Harvard. Professors, alumni, and students are all recruited to start calling the admitted.”</p></li>
<li><p>Weekend Boondoggle
“And in mid to late April over half of those who were accepted typically show up at Harvard for an elaborate weekend. “We have something remarkable going on every minute,” brags Fitzsimmons.”</p></li>
</ol>

<p>[Online</a> Extra: How Harvard Gets its Best and Brightest - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>Dickinson +0.03% (>5,820)
[Dickinson</a> College - Congratulations, Class of 2017!](<a href=“http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Congratulations,-Class-of-2017/]Dickinson”>http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Congratulations,-Class-of-2017/)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 5,818 [Dickinson</a> College - Reports](<a href=“http://www.dickinson.edu/about/offices/institutional-research/content/General-Facts/]Dickinson”>http://www.dickinson.edu/about/offices/institutional-research/content/General-Facts/)</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>Two more southern Pa LACs</p>

<p>Gettysburg -3.9% (nearly 5,400)
[Gettysburg</a> College - Acceptance letters mailed to prospective members of the Class of 2017](<a href=“Archives - Gettysburg College”>Archives - Gettysburg College)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 5,620 [Gettysburg</a> College - Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.gettysburg.edu/facts_figures/cds.dot]Gettysburg”>http://www.gettysburg.edu/facts_figures/cds.dot)</p>

<p>Franklin & Marshall >+2.4% (>5,300)
page not found, but this is what my google search says

Home — Franklin & Marshallwww.fandm.edu/Cached…
… to Class of 2017 applicants. We reviewed more than 5,300 applications from 40-plus states and dozens of countries. … Congratulations to the Class of 2017!

'16 apps= 5,174 [Fast</a> Facts ? Franklin & Marshall](<a href=“F&M Page Not Found”>F&M Page Not Found)</p>

<p>this one’s hard to believe, while this doc is intended for the “class of 2017” perhaps other groups…x-fers & grads, are included in their tally?</p>

<p>Monclaire State +46% (>18,000)
<a href=“http://www.montclair.edu/media/montclairedu/undergraduateadmissions/Accepted-Packet-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.montclair.edu/media/montclairedu/undergraduateadmissions/Accepted-Packet-2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>'16 apps= 12,319 <a href=“http://www.montclair.edu/oit/institutionalresearch/Data-and-Reports/CommonDataSet/CDS%202012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.montclair.edu/oit/institutionalresearch/Data-and-Reports/CommonDataSet/CDS%202012-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[xiggi]

<p>

“The first phase begins in the spring, when Harvard mails letters to a staggering 70,000-or-so high school juniors—all with stellar test scores—suggesting they consider applying to America’s best-known college. Harvard buys their names from the College Board (which administers the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT) and ACT Inc. (which administers the college-admission test that’s more popular in the Midwest).”

</p>

<p>A staggering 70,000 recipients are thrilled. And their parents even more so as they can share on the YMCA sidelines or on the cocktail circuit how DS or DD is now recruited by the mighty Crimson. In vino veritas! </p>

<p>If 70,000 is indeed the number, the most staggering part would be the conversion number as more than 30,000 students apply. Of course, that is quite the assumption.</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>Providence -0.03% (9,649)
<a href=“http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/Documents/Newsletter_January%202013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/Documents/Newsletter_January%202013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>'16 apps= 9,652 <a href=“http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/assessment/Documents/Dashboard_Academics_02012013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.providence.edu/academic-affairs/assessment/Documents/Dashboard_Academics_02012013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This Georgetown '17 acceptance piece was just posted, “Number of Applications for Class of 2017 Holds Steady”…well, kinda. Some good spin, but no new apps numbers, so the prior stats stand, -1.1%. [see post 284]
<a href=“http://www.georgetown.edu/news/undergraduate-applications-class-of-2017.html[/url]”>http://www.georgetown.edu/news/undergraduate-applications-class-of-2017.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>mastadon & xiggi- regarding that Harvard marketing article, what’s also amazing is that it dates from 2006. They were ahead of the curve in their sophistication way before others even thought about marketing. Now with a more mature market, others have jumped in, but most will have a hard time mimicking, let alone affording, the complex interplay of activities that Harvard has mastered. Its an arms race.</p>

<p>Here are some excepts from a recent Harvard article describing some their marketing-related activities this season.
[College</a> admits 2,029 | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/college-admits-2029-5-8-percent-of-applicants/]College”>College admits 2,029 — Harvard Gazette)</p>

<p>

“Unprecedented levels of financial aid played a major role in producing a record applicant pool and an admitted group that promises to be one of the best in Harvard’s history,”… “We expect that nearly 60 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2017 will need financial assistance in order to attend,”

Foreign citizens make up 10.3 percent of the admitted students…Together, foreign citizens, U.S. duals, and U.S. permanent residents make up more than 20 percent of the class, representing 81 countries. “Harvard is greatly enriched by the presence of outstanding international students,” said Robin M. Worth, director of international admissions. “They add a unique dimension to the College, both in and out of the classroom.”

“Much of our success is due to our loyal 15,000 alumni volunteers,” said Marlyn E. McGrath, director of admissions. “Their interviews remain important as we make our admissions decisions. They are also essential to our recruiting, as they visit schools, call newly admitted students, and host gatherings for them in April.” Added Elizabeth Adams, liaison to the alumni/ae Schools and Scholarship Committees

Recruitment begins each year with direct outreach to promising juniors. More than 64 percent of all admitted students and 81 percent of admitted minority students appeared on the original College Board and ACT search lists that helped launch Harvard’s outreach program for the Class of 2017.

Staff members will visit 125 cities this spring and fall in tandem with Duke University, Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University, targeting high school juniors who may eventually join the Class of 2018. “Harvard will join Princeton and the University of Virginia to visit 20 more cities in the fall, targeting students from modest economic backgrounds,” said Tim Smith, assistant director of joint travel. Added Jennifer Gandy, director of joint travel, “Last year, Harvard admissions officers visited all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, where we saw nearly 50,000 high school students and parents and met with more than 3,000 high school guidance counselors.”

“Recruitment has provided the foundation for Harvard’s pursuit of academic and extracurricular excellence for many decades,” said Roger Banks, director of recruitment. “Members of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) played a key role in attracting this year’s record pool of students.” Members of both organizations telephoned and sent email messages and letters to prospective applicants. They also conducted recruitment trips around the country and met with middle school and high school student groups who visited Harvard.

The Undergraduate Admissions Council (UAC) and the undergraduate tour guides and greeters work year-round with campus visitors to Cambridge, leading tours and hosting prospective applicants overnight. David Evans, co-director of the UAC, noted, “Current undergraduates have enormous credibility with prospective students who want to learn firsthand about the Harvard experience.” Added Mike Esposito, UAC co-director, “The UAC provides a human face to the Harvard community, and applicants often stay in touch with UAC members throughout the year.”

Banks, director of visitor services and co-director of the student tour guide program, said, “Our tour guides and greeters welcome over 40,000 visitors each year to Cambridge. Their anecdotes about life in the College both inside and outside the classroom help lend a personal dimension to Harvard.”…Bryce Gilfillian, assistant director, said, “Prospective students and their families from around the world see Harvard for the first time with our tour guides and often make their decision about whether to apply based on this experience.”

McGrath emphasized the important role of the teaching faculty in the admissions process. Faculty members speak with many prospective students in person or on the phone and answer their letters and email inquiries.

Personal contact with admitted students will be important over the next few weeks. Members of the UAC, UMRP, HFAI, the admissions and financial aid staff, and teaching faculty will write, email, telephone, and meet with admitted students.

jeez, they even have a “yield activity coordinator”

“Our careful admissions process allows us to get to know our admitted students well,” said Niki Applebaum, yield activity coordinator. “We write personalized notes to congratulate them and help them consider how Harvard might provide the right match for their interests.”

…and it keeps going.</p>

<p>Yes its all a bit depressing as someone on the ‘consumer’ side of this situation…the marketing hype and escalation often play to peoples emotions in a bad way, and I know who will end up paying for all of this effort. However, as someone in the busines world, I gotta admit that I admire the world-class marketing engine and brand that Harvard has created.</p>

[LongRangePlan]

<p>Fascinating thread, and thanks for all the work to do it. I know the kids at my sons’ private CA hs applied to more schools this year than in past years. GCs urged them to do so, following some surprises last year, with many cases of top students getting denied from schools GCs thought were matches. One girl we know applied to 21 colleges.
Many seemed to settle on 15 as a good application #.</p>

<p>Curious, does anyone have data on apps to Chapman University in SoCal? It was a popular choice this year at our hs, but we only know of one student who got in.</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>LongRangePlan- giving us a challenge with Chapman! This is not up to my normal editorial standards, but I’ll go with it. Post 21 of this thread provides text of a Chapman admissions newsletter that I cannot otherwise find on Chapman’s web:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/chapman-university/1476795-regular-decision-acceptance.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/chapman-university/1476795-regular-decision-acceptance.html&lt;/a&gt;
So, the '17 apps number is “more than 12,300”…hence,</p>

<p>Chapman +17.3% (>12,300)</p>

<p>'16 apps= 10,489
Their institutional research site is not up to date, but I found their fall '12 data here (they have a federal deadline): [College</a> Navigator - Chapman University](<a href=“College Navigator - Chapman University”>College Navigator - Chapman University)</p>

<p>The increase, though large, is quite believable to me seeing their similar apps growth over the past few years, as can be gleaned by looking at various years of admissions data in their fact books:
[Fact</a> Book | Chapman University](<a href=“About Chapman | Chapman University”>About Chapman | Chapman University)
For instance, just 4 seasons ago (Fall 09) they had HALF (6,159) the applications they have this year.</p>

[alisonrick]

<p>Does anyone know the number for TCU? how about Santa Clara?</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>alisonrick- I was looking for Santa Clara last night with no luck, and I will put TCU on my list.</p>

<p>catch-up</p>

<p>Monclair State +46% (>18,000) [??]
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)
Carleton +20% (calc’d ~7,030)
UChicago +20% (30,369)
Boston U +19.7% (52,693)
Ohio U +17.4% (20,512)
Chapman +17.3% (>12,300)
UCSC +16.9% (38,507)
UC Merced +16.6% (14,966)
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)
Georgia ~+13.8% (~21,000)
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)
Northern Illinois +11% (>18,000)
UMass Lowell +11% (7,328)
UCLA +10.8% (80,472)
UCSD +10.8% (67,403)
Babson +10.3% (6,080)
Pepperdine +10% (10,443)
Washington U SL ~+10% (~30,000)
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)
UMn >+7.4% (>41,000 as of Feb and counting)
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 +6.0% (53,760)
St Andrews +6% (14,355)
RPI +~6% (16,112)
Stanford +6.0% (38,828)
UT Dallas >+5.9% (>7,500)
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)
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)
Virginia +2.6% (29,005)
Union +2.5% (5,643)
Franklin & Marshall >+2.4% (>5,300)
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)
Wisconsin >+1.9% (>29,600)
Rice +1.76% (~15,400)
Rhode Island <+1.76% (“close to” 21,000)
Smith +1.4% (4,402)
George Washington +1.04% (21,982)
Emory +0.91% (17,652)
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)
Dickinson +0.03% (>5,820)
Caltech -0.02% (5,536)
Providence -0.03% (9,649)
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)
Gettysburg -3.9% (nearly 5,400)
Vassar -3.9% (7,600)
SUNY Cortland ~-4.2% (>11,200)
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>

<p>120 schools, median 5.0%-5.3%</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>nothing solid on TCU.</p>

<p>Only reference I found to '17 freshman apps was here, apparently just as the January semester was beginning, well before the 2/15 app deadline:
[Update</a> from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr.](<a href=“http://www.chancellor.tcu.edu/greetings/spring2013/default.asp]Update”>http://www.chancellor.tcu.edu/greetings/spring2013/default.asp)

We anticipate continued excellence as we enroll the Class of 2017. Among the over 16,000 applicants to date, average ACT and SAT scores are comparable to last year’s freshman class, as is the average class rank. The number of out-of-state applicants has increased.

</p>

<p>So the count of 16,000 was incomplete & current count likely to be much larger.</p>

<p>'16 apps= 19,335
[College</a> Navigator - Texas Christian University](<a href=“College Navigator - Texas Christian University”>College Navigator - Texas Christian University)</p>

[LongRangePlan]

<p>PapaC – thanks so much for sleuthing out the Chapman info. Up 17% makes sense to me. One factor: the film school there has become a huge draw, lots of accolades in industry trade press in the last year or so. My son is a student and I’m glad he got in when he did. I was really surprised at the denials from Chapman among kids we know this year, who really seemed to have the stats. I used to think 15-20 apps per student was overkill, but now it doesn’t seem so crazy.</p>