<p>Unfortunately the schools with the highest number of students will probably have the highest number of applicants so it doesn’t tell you anything. For example, a public university with 20,000 undergrads will undoubtedly have more than a smaller private with 5,000. That being said, I posted a while back the top schools with applicants to WUSTL over a period of years:</p>
<p>Washington University 207
Harvard University 88
Duke University 79
Stanford University 72
University of California-Berkeley 51
Northwestern University / University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 48
Yale University /Cornell University 46
University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana 42
Princeton University 41
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39
Brown University 38
Johns Hopkins University 37
University of Pennsylvania / University of California-Los Angeles 36
Rice University 33</p>