<p>USAF Academy ~0% (12,000 “plus”)
[Rudd</a> Accepts Air Force Academy Appointment : NorthEscambia.com](<a href=“http://www.northescambia.com/2013/04/rudd-accepts-air-force-academy-appointment]Rudd”>Rudd Accepts Air Force Academy Appointment : NorthEscambia.com)</p>
<p>'16 apps= 12,274 [College</a> Navigator - United States Air Force Academy](<a href=“College Navigator - United States Air Force Academy”>College Navigator - United States Air Force Academy)</p>
<p>Story from the Boston Globe Sunday magazine on Massachusetts colleges that can’t fill their freshman classes (including Smith, Simmons, Wheaton, and Hampshire).</p>
<p>[Are</a> small private colleges in trouble? - Magazine - The Boston Globe](<a href=“Why some small colleges are in big trouble - The Boston Globe”>Why some small colleges are in big trouble - The Boston Globe)</p>
<p>New NYT stats out: <a href=“2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>2013 College Acceptance Rates - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
<p>As I have time, I will compare and contrast with what we already have & update accordingly. While there appear to be some entirely new schools on the NYT list, some of the stats for schools already on our list appear at slight variance. I will make a judgment call on which data appear more current (as we learned earlier in the thread that some of the NYT data were dated.)</p>
<p>tougis, more to chew on here (plus I’m consumed this week with real work), so give me a tad more time!</p>
<p>Pre-NYT-update 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)
UMn +10% (~42,000 and counting)
Pepperdine +10% (10,443)
Syracuse ~+10% (calc: ~28,370)
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)
Stony Brook >+9% (>30,000) [source not verified on web]
Carnegie Mellon +9.0% (18,879)
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)
DePaul +7.2% (19,475 & counting as of 2/13)
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)
Stanford +6.0% (38,828)
UT Dallas >+5.9% (>7,500)
Bates +5.9% (5,194)
Cornell +5.8% (40,006)
RPI +5.8% (16,112)
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)
Santa Clara +4.8% (nearly 15,000)
UMass Amherst +4.8% (36,000)
Wesleyan +4.5% (10,969)
Notre Dame +4.1% (~17,650) [source not verified on web]
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)
Colorado College +3.0% (5,775)
Middlebury +3.0% (9,112)
Bryn Mawr >+2.8% (2,700+)
Colby +2.8% (5,390)
Kenyon +2.8% (4,057)
Union +2.7% (5,717)
Vermont +2.7% (22,277)
William & Mary +2.7% (14,035)
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)
SUNY Oswego ~+2% (~9,940 calc)
Denison +1.96% (4,850)
Wisconsin >+1.9% (>29,600)
Rice +1.76% (~15,400)
Smith +1.4% (4,402)
U Rhode Island +1.16% (20,632)
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)
Tulane ~~0% (roughly 30,000)
USAF Academy ~0% (12,000 “plus”)
Caltech -0.02% (5,536)
Providence -0.03% (9,649)
Grinnell -0.57% (4,528)
Princeton -0.62% (26,498)
Occidental -0.88% (6,080)
Marquette -0.89% (22,697)
Haverford -0.99% (3,590)
Georgetown -1.2% (19,879)
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)
Conn College -2.8% (4,700)
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 -7.5% (7,918)
Penn State ~-9% (~43,272, calculated)
SUNY Canton -19.6% (4,276)
Boston College -26.6% (~25,000)</p>
<p>many revisions in order, most small, which I’ll get to later.</p>
<p>Here are the new schools to the list from the NYT table:</p>
<p>Cooper Union -11.1% ( 3,177 )
Frostburg -8.4% ( 3,602 )
Ga Tech + 19.9% ( 17,663 )
Lafayette + 1.5% ( 6,758 )
Lewis & Clark -1.3% ( 6,440 )
Richmond -4.0% ( 9,819 )
UMdCP + 3.8% ( 26,184 )</p>
<p>Papachicken-
One you might not catch from looking at the new data-
St. Lawrence had 4,067 applications last year. Not sure where your 3080 came from, but if the 4,420 reported for this year by the NYT is accurate that would make St. Lawrence stand at +8.7</p>
<p><a href=“Institutional Research | St. Lawrence University”>Institutional Research | St. Lawrence University;
<p>Thanks Sue22…likewise, when I was scanning the NYT numbers the other night, I noticed how off the 3022 was for St Lawrence & wondered where the heck that came from. I think that one is the biggest bust between the lists. When I get a chance hopefully later this week, I will do a complete reconciliation.</p>
<p>[U</a> of Illinois sees record number of applications](<a href=“http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/u-of-illinois-sees-record-number-of-applications/article_52bdfb00-af79-11e2-a9a6-001a4bcf887a.html]U”>http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/u-of-illinois-sees-record-number-of-applications/article_52bdfb00-af79-11e2-a9a6-001a4bcf887a.html)
UIUC apps up almost 2,000.
2012: 31,454 (from collegeboard)
2013: 33,178</p>
<p>but isn’t it all mostly attributable to kids applying to a dozen or more schools now? if every kid is applying to a third more schools than they did six years ago, of course all the apps numbers will go up , and the percentage accepted will go down… that doesn’t actually mean that colleges are getting harder to get into.</p>
<p>Any predictions on class of 2018?</p>
<p>yeah i totally agree</p>
<p>Are these stats really accurate?</p>
<p>autumngl0ry - not sure how to answer you other than these are the best we’ve got. Big picture: colleges release their numbers in drips and drabs over the application season, as press releases or news stories (many amid much fanfare, I suppose to drum up even more publicity & create more application draw), and we picked those reports up here. The NYT also reports a consolidated listing of applications numbers and growth, updated several times during the season. I believe they get their information not only from college data releases but also from contacting admissions departments directly. Note that for RD, I see on prior posts of this thread that college releases started rolling in early January, just after the main RD applications due date, and the 1st version of the NYT list appeared late January, updated several times over the ensuing months. (A similar reporting dynamic exists for the early applications cycle, with 1st college releases appearing in November followed by December/January NYT listing, but I’m not aware that this list has been published yet for the class of '18.)</p>
<p>Although one can pokes holes at the supposed counting methods employed by the various colleges to end up with their self-reported numbers, in the whole, my take is that these numbers are pretty accurate…at least they don’t change that much (materially) over the season on a per-college level. [There have been a few exceptions like the SLU data mentioned above.] There is much debate on how applications are counted though (by some institutions that may take a more liberal view on what, exactly, constitutes an application), which I won’t elaborate upon here.</p>
<p>Application statistics for the class of 2017 are now history (unless someone would like to do further analysis of the data we have.) Time to move on to the Class of 2018. Xiggi has a thread going on early applications here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1589387-early-applications-statistics-class-2018-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1589387-early-applications-statistics-class-2018-a.html</a>
…and I suspect a new thread on '18 RD applications growth will get going within the month as data releases start coming in.</p>
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<p>JuniorMint regarding BC-- I heard at an official meeting of several College Admissions officers - BC went down b/c they added a 2nd essay to their application! Apparently they are good with this because it is less work for the Admis. team - but many of the admissions people on the panel snickered when that was mentioned.</p>