@HYPSPlease I find it super hard to believe that 45% of the applicants are international students. This means that about 18,177 international students applied. Last year the international apps were 7,165 out of a total of 38,918 apps or 18%. The jump seems just too huge. also the article says that about half of the growth was attributed to the increase of international students. I would not be surprised if this was a typo by the DP. I think they meant to write that 45% of the increase came outside the US. The total growth was 1476 apps so about 664 was the growth of international apps for a total of about 7830 international apps.