APPLICATIONS GROWTH Class of 2013

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>Amherst (~1.2%)
Baylor +18%
Boston C expected even
Boston U slightly down
Bowdoin (1.7%)
Bucknell (~5%)
Brandeis (10.8%)
Bryn Mawr +6%
Brown ~+21% (still approx)
Carleton (4%)
Carnegie Mellon +12.1% (although apps count methodology in question)
Chicago +9.6%
Clemson +7.1%
Claremont McK +2%
Colby (7%)
Colgate (18%)
College of NJ flat
Colorado State +10%
Columbia +12%
Conn Col up slightly
Cooper Union ~+8%
Cornell +3%
Dartmouth +8.9%
Davidson +1.3%
Dickinson (5%)
Drexel +36%
Duke +17%
Elon down slightly
Emory (10.5%)
Fordham +5%
Georgia State +25%
Georgia Tech +11.5%
George Wash (2.3%)
Gettysburg ~(15%) (maybe just RD)
Guilford ~+5%
Hamilton (8.5%)
Harvard ~+5.6%
Indiana U +6%
Ithaca (6%)
Johns Hopkins +1%
Kenyon (10%)
Lehigh (13%)
Macalester (9.7%)
Marquette +15%
Middlebury ~(12%)
MIT +17%
Montclair St +20%
Northwestern ~+2% (count incomplete, 3-4% expected)
Notre Dame up slightly
NYU +0.3%
Penn State +6%
Pomona (2%)
Princeton +2.3%
Providence (5%)
Reed (9.5%)
Rice +12%
RPI ~up, but not quantified yet
Rutgers slightly down
Smith +6%
St Olaf (1.5%)
Stanford +20%
Swarthmore (10%)
Syracuse ~(4 to 5%)
Temple +1%
Texas A&M +6.7%
Trinity Col down maybe
Tufts ~(3 to 4%)
Tulane ~+17% at least, more growth to count
Union (8%)
UC Berkeley +0.4%
UC Davis +4.4%
UC Irvine +4.0%
UCLA +0.5%
UCSB (5.0%)
UCSD (0.7%)
UConn ~+9%
UGA ~+3%
U Illinois ~+12%
U Mass Amh ~+10%
U Minn ~+15%
UNC +17%
U Oregon ~+20% so far
U Penn (0.4%)
USC ~(1%)
U Texas +6.2%
UVa +16%
U Wisc Mad (3.2%)
Vanderbilt +13.6%
Vassar +2.7%
Villanova (13%)
Washington U ~+5%
Wellesley +3.6%
Wesleyan +21.6%
Whitman “about flat”, maybe up
William & Mary +3.6%
Williams (20.5%)
WVU (7%)
Yale +13.6%</p>

[gellino]

<p>

Colgate apps down 18%</p>

<p>7750 this year reported here:
2009 Acceptance Rate?</p>

<p>9415 for class of 2012 reported here:
Colgate: Class of 2012 Profile

</p>

<p>A Colgate alum email I got said they had “over 7,800” applications. It seems like they have a pattern of surge followed by decline as they had over 8,000 apps for the first time three years ago, followed by a decline the next year when most schools were up, followed by a huge advance last year, followed by a huge decline this year. </p>

<p>It’s amazing how such similar schools with a high normal cross-over of candidates like Williams and Amherst can be so different in the rate of change of applications this year (-1% vs -21%). I guess it was an especially bad year for the rural LACs with Middlebury down ~12%, although somehow Dartmouth wasn’t negatively affected. Maybe, they are perceived to have much better financial aid.</p>

[hazelbrook]

<p>Has anyone seen data for Bates, Trinity College, or Connecticut College?</p>

[LKADmom]

<p>Wake Forest magazine notes that applications increased by 14% over last year’s total of 9050.</p>

[runmanstl]

<p>gellino,
Dartmouth may be a rural LAC, but it is an IVY LEAGUE rural LAC, and thus, has not suffered from the “Is it worth it?” syndrome that Colgate, Williams, et al have. And it is truly need-blind for all applicants.</p>

[dave72]

<p>updated list
Amherst (~1.2%)
Baylor +18%
Boston C expected even
Boston U slightly down
Bowdoin (1.7%)
Bucknell (~5%)
Brandeis (10.8%)
Bryn Mawr +6%
Brown ~+21% (still approx)
Carleton (4%)
Carnegie Mellon +12.1% (although apps count methodology in question)
Chicago +9.6%
Clemson +7.1%
Claremont McK +2%
Colby (7%)
Colgate (18%)
College of NJ flat
Colorado State +10%
Columbia +12%
Conn Col up slightly
Cooper Union ~+8%
Cornell +3%
Dartmouth +8.9%
Davidson +1.3%
Dickinson (5%)
Drexel +36%
Duke +17%
Elon down slightly
Emory (10.5%)
Fordham +5%
Georgia State +25%
Georgia Tech +11.5%
George Wash (2.3%)
Gettysburg ~(15%) (maybe just RD)
Guilford ~+5%
Hamilton (8.5%)
Harvard ~+5.6%
Indiana U +6%
Ithaca (6%)
Johns Hopkins +1%
Kenyon (10%)
Lehigh (13%)
Macalester (9.7%)
Marquette +15%
Middlebury ~(12%)
MIT +17%
Montclair St +20%
Northwestern ~+2% (count incomplete, 3-4% expected)
Notre Dame up slightly
NYU +0.3%
Oberlin +4%
Penn State +6%
Pomona (2%)
Princeton +2.3%
Providence (5%)
Reed (9.5%)
Rice +12%
RPI ~up, but not quantified yet
Rutgers slightly down
Smith +6%
St Olaf (1.5%)
Stanford +20%
Swarthmore (10%)
Syracuse ~(4 to 5%)
Temple +1%
Texas A&M +6.7%
Trinity Col down maybe
Tufts ~(3 to 4%)
Tulane ~+17% at least, more growth to count
Union (8%)
UC Berkeley +0.4%
UC Davis +4.4%
UC Irvine +4.0%
UCLA +0.5%
UCSB (5.0%)
UCSD (0.7%)
UConn ~+9%
UGA ~+3%
U Illinois ~+12%
U Mass Amh ~+10%
U Minn ~+15%
UNC +17%
U Oregon ~+20% so far
U Penn (0.4%)
USC ~(1%)
U Texas +6.2%
UVa +16%
U Wisc Mad (3.2%)
Vanderbilt +13.6%
Vassar +2.7%
Villanova (13%)
Washington U ~+5%
Wellesley +3.6%
Wesleyan +21.6%
Whitman “about flat”, maybe up
William & Mary +3.6%
Williams (20.5%)
WVU (7%)
Yale +13.6%</p>

[xSteven]

<p>updated list
Amherst (~1.2%)
Baylor +18%
Boston C expected even
Boston U slightly down
Bowdoin (1.7%)
Bucknell (~5%)
Brandeis (10.8%)
Bryn Mawr +6%
Brown ~+21% (still approx)
Carleton (4%)
Carnegie Mellon +12.1% (although apps count methodology in question)
Chicago +9.6%
Clemson +7.1%
Claremont McK +2%
Colby (7%)
Colgate (18%)
College of NJ flat
Colorado State +10%
Columbia +12%
Conn Col up slightly
Cooper Union ~+8%
Cornell +3%
Dartmouth +8.9%
Davidson +1.3%
Dickinson (5%)
Drexel +36%
Duke +17%
Elon down slightly
Emory (10.5%)
Fordham +5%
Georgia State +25%
Georgia Tech +11.5%
George Wash (2.3%)
Gettysburg ~(15%) (maybe just RD)
Guilford ~+5%
Hamilton (8.5%)
Harvard ~+5.6%
Indiana U +6%
Ithaca (6%)
Johns Hopkins +1%
Kenyon (10%)
Lehigh (13%)
Macalester (9.7%)
Marquette +15%
Middlebury ~(12%)
MIT +17%
Montclair St +20%
Northwestern ~+2% (count incomplete, 3-4% expected)
Notre Dame up slightly
NYU +0.3%
Oberlin +4%
Penn State +6%
Pomona (2%)
Princeton +2.3%
Providence (5%)
Reed (9.5%)
Rice +12%
RPI ~up, but not quantified yet
Rutgers slightly down
Smith +6%
St Olaf (1.5%)
Stanford +20%
Swarthmore (10%)
Syracuse ~(4 to 5%)
Temple +1%
Texas A&M +6.7%
Trinity Col down maybe
Tufts ~(3 to 4%)
Tulane ~+17% at least, more growth to count
Union (8%)
UC Berkeley +0.4%
UC Davis +4.4%
UC Irvine +4.0%
UCLA +0.5%
UCSB (5.0%)
UCSD (0.7%)
UConn ~+9%
UGA ~+3%
U Illinois ~+12%
U Mass Amh ~+10%
U Minn ~+15%
UNC +17%
U Oregon ~+20% so far
U Penn (0.4%)
USC ~(1%)
U Texas +6.2%
UVa +16%
U Wisc Mad (3.2%)
Vanderbilt +13.6%
Vassar +2.7%
Villanova (13%)
Wake Forest +14%
Washington U ~+5%
Wellesley +3.6%
Wesleyan +21.6%
Whitman “about flat”, maybe up
William & Mary +3.6%
Williams (20.5%)
WVU (7%)
Yale +13.6%</p>

[bclintonk]

<p>Updated number: University of Minnesota +16%</p>

<p>[Undergrad</a> applicants at record high | mndaily.com - Serving the University of Minnesota Since 1900](<a href=“http://www.mndaily.com/2009/04/12/undergrad-applicants-record-high]Undergrad”>Undergrad applicants at record high – The Minnesota Daily)</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>back on posts 151 & 152, we were debating the source of William & Mary’s growth numbers…here’s the latest update:
[Number</a> of applicants largest in College history | Flat Hat News](<a href=“http://flathatnews.com/content/70729/number-applicants-largest-college-history]Number”>http://flathatnews.com/content/70729/number-applicants-largest-college-history)</p>

<p>12,104 apps this year
11,622 apps last year</p>

<p>calculates to 4.1% growth</p>

<p>

The College of William and Mary has received 12,104 applications from potential students, the most in admissions history. </p>

<p>Applications were up four percent from last year when the College received 11,622. </p>

<p>The College has accepted approximately 4,000 students for the Class of 2013, bringing the admission rate to about 33 percent. </p>

<p>However, the final number could change, depending on how many applicants the College decides to accept from its wait list. </p>

<p>The admission rate for the Class of 2012 was also initially 33 percent. However, once additional students were admitted to the College from the wait list, it increased to 35 percent.

</p>

[boysx3]

<p>do you have any information on American University?</p>

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>boysx3-- this is all I could find on AU…a mid December interim report:
<a href=“http://www.american.edu/president/announcements/upload/121908.pdf[/url]”>http://www.american.edu/president/announcements/upload/121908.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>

With regard to fall 2009, freshman applications are
up slightly over this time last year, and early decision applications are up by 12.8
percent over last year. Transfer applications are down slightly (by only nine
applications), but graduate applications are slightly ahead of last year. At this
early stage, we are limited in our ability to project the enrollment for fall 2009,
but these initial trends are promising.

</p>

[LKADmom]

<p>The Wake Forest web site now says that applications growth this year is 16%, rather than the 14% I mentioned earlier (figure from the WFU magazine).</p>

<p>[WFU</a> | Rethinking Admissions: Admissions Q&A](<a href=“http://www.wfu.edu/provost/rethinkingadmissions/q_and_a.php]WFU”>http://www.wfu.edu/provost/rethinkingadmissions/q_and_a.php)</p>

[bird_rock]

<p>We were at Tulane this past week and they told us they got 40,000 applications this year.</p>

[boysx3]

<p>Thanks, PapaChicken.</p>

<p>My son was one of the ED apps and he can’t wait to get on campus this fall!</p>