Which colleges have the most applicants?

Applying to College
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<p>Not necessarily applicants admitted...
I mean total applicants who applied. What are the national top 10?</p>

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<p>I believe that UCLA had the most applicants last year</p>

3

<p>Yea, the large state universities will have the most applicants. Off the top of my head: Florida, UCLA, and UT-Austin.</p>

4

<p>how about NYU ? at least 35,000.</p>

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<p>I heard UCLA had 50k.</p>

6

<p>UCLA breaks their own record every year.</p>

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<p>UCLA had 52000 last year
i heard its gonna be even higher this year
yikes!</p>

8

<p>holy **** @ UCLA</p>

9

<p>Penn State had 96000.</p>

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<p>UCLA 50732
Penn State 48093
UCSB 48032
Rutgers 45901*
Berkeley 44127
CSU-LB 42815*
SDSU 40959*
UCSD 40464*
UCI 38426
Boston U 33918
USC 33754
NYU 33049
UCD 32635*
Cornell 30383
UT Austin 27315*
Michigan 26796</p>

<p>*Data from 2006-07 CDS</p>

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<p>Yeah- I was going to say Berkeley had a huge number... guess I was right.</p>

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<p>Fordham had 22,000 last year and about 15,000 the year before that. Amazing. Its the demographics....a huge population of kids applying to colleges now...but I read somewhere it will peak in a few years and then drop off in 5 or 6 years. Baby boomer's baby boom college applicants will end.</p>

<p>Wake Forest actually had a small decrease in applications this past year. Weird.</p>

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<p>^that's really wierd!</p>

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<p>^It's supposed to peak in the year 2011 (this years high school freshmen), and then drop off. (To make that a bit more concise).</p>

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<p>LMAO. Perfect. (i'm a freshman) :p</p>

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<p>They spend a fortune sending recruitment mail. My daughter has received over 30 individual mailers from some of the schools mentioned above over the last 6 months. Slick, thick and expensive. We receive something almost every day from several very good schools. Do they really feel the need to have 10x the number of applicants for each seat? Or are application fees a way to raise funds?</p>

<p>I find this mind boggling.</p>

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<p>I dont think Wake had a decrease in apps from the HS class of '06 to '07...that would make very little sense after they won the ACC football championship. They have never had that many apps in the first place though (it is a very underrated school, lives in the shadow of Duke and UNC but I believe that it is a better undergrad school than UNC)</p>