Is there a reason that Williams applications increased so much last year?

[momrath]

I would agree with @wisteria100 that international applicants were a major factor in the increase in the number of applications from 2016 to 2017. In 2016 (Class of 2020) Williams received 1187 applications from internationals; in 2017 (Class of 2021) they received 1890, an increase of 703 or 59%. Thus international applications represented 44% of the increase in applications from 2016 to 2017.

I’d be interested to know if Williams experienced the same kind of increase in international applications from 2017 to 2018, but I haven’t been able to find relevant figures. Other LACs experienced significant increases. Bates says their international applications increased 105%!

This quote is from an article in the Williams Record on class of 2021 admissions.

We also saw dramatic increases in applications from American students of color and international students . . .The Office of Admission has devoted more time to international recruitment, traveling further and for more time this cycle than in previous years. These efforts, led by the new Assistant Director for International Recruitment Misha Garg, have proven successful; 22 percent of applications came from international students, an increase from 17 percent last year.

Despite this effort to recruit more and more internationally, Williams international admit numbers have remained about the same: 2020 100 admitted, 2021 95 admitted, 2022 103 admitted.