<p>[Applications</a> Rise (Yet Again) at Dozens of Selective Colleges - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/total-apps-2011/]Applications”>Applications Rise (Yet Again) at Dozens of Selective Colleges - The New York Times)</p>
<p>The link is a table of application numbers for various selective colleges. They report Villanova received almost 15,400 undergrad applications this year - a 7% increase from last year.</p>