<p>In a correction made late today, the NY Times changed the title of the article to “Applications Surge to Berkeley and Virginia” and posted a statement correcting, among other things, that applications to Middlebury did not decline but actually rose by 4.56% -</p>
<p>“Correction: January 23, 2012:<br>
An earlier version of this post cited the announcement of a program to provide tuition relief to middle class students as a possible factor in the rise in applications at the University of California, Berkeley. That program was announced after the university’s Nov. 30 deadline for regular applications. The earlier post, and the accompanying chart, also reported, erroneously, that Middlebury College had a 4.56 percent drop in applications; in fact, its applications increased by that percentage.”</p>