<p>Sorry, not biggest applicant pool in school’s history</p>
<p>[State</a> colleges get look as good value | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/15/2009](<a href=“http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20090315_State_colleges_get_look_as_good_value.html]State”>State colleges get look as good value)</p>
<p>"“Villanova University, where tuition, room, and board, as at Penn, are nearing $50,000 annually, saw a 13 percent decline, the largest of about 35 schools surveyed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey”</p>
<p>And by top-tier, I meant schools like Ivies, Notre dame, Duke, etc–most difficult to get into. Villanova is an excellent, well regarded school ,but not ‘top-tier’.</p>