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<p>Yikes. </p>
<p>That is a 20% increase over last year, which was already the second highest number of apps they had ever had.</p>
<p>That would put the acceptance rate down around 18% – the lowest in the school’s history (or least as far back as 1970). The previous low was 20% for the fall 1998 freshman class.</p>