Who is WHITE hot in college application increases?

<p>Who’s hot?</p>

<p>increase in applications 2001 to 2006
IPEDS</p>

<p>Baylor University 167.9%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 117.3%
Tulane University of Louisiana 91.1%
Fordham University 70.3%
Cornell University 69.9%
Marquette University 65.0%
Case Western Reserve University 61.0%
Johns Hopkins University 61.0%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 59.8%
University of Connecticut 54.1%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 53.3%
Yale University 50.9%
The University of Tennessee 48.3%
American University 45.4%
Southern Methodist University 43.7%
University of California-Santa Cruz 40.8%
Boston College 39.5%
Wake Forest University 39.3%
Dartmouth College 36.8%
University of Notre Dame 36.3%
Syracuse University 36.0%
SUNY at Binghamton 35.9%
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 33.8%
Lehigh University 33.0%
Indiana University-Bloomington 31.7%
The University of Texas at Austin 30.4%
Rice University 30.2%
University of Miami 29.3%
University of Southern California 28.9%
Princeton University 28.6%
Clark University 27.6%
Emory University 27.2%
College of William and Mary 24.5%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 24.1%
Miami University-Oxford 23.7%
George Washington University 21.6%
University of Iowa 21.2%
University of Missouri-Columbia 21.1%
University of Chicago 21.0%
University of Delaware 20.4%
Vanderbilt University 19.9%
University of Maryland-College Park 19.8%
Harvard University 19.6%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 19.5%
University of California-Davis 19.0%
University of Florida 18.6%
University of California-Irvine 18.3%
Stanford University 17.2%
Auburn University Main Campus 16.7%
University of California-Riverside 16.4%
New York University 16.1%
Purdue University-Main Campus 14.4%
Boston University 14.0%
Pepperdine University 13.3%
Carnegie Mellon University 13.0%
University of Georgia 12.5%
University of California-Berkeley 12.3%
University of Rochester 12.0%
Clemson University 11.8%
Tufts University 11.6%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11.1%
Brandeis University 10.4%
Brown University 10.3%
University of California-Santa Barbara 10.3%
Northwestern University 10.0%</p>

<p>Excuse my stupidity, but why is this on the Wash U thread? I read the list twice, but didn’t see it on there</p>

<p>I guess friedokra is trying to say that WashU isn’t white hot in terms of application increases.</p>

<p>But University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and SLU are, so that proves… wait…</p>

<p>Tulane is hot because they give a free app to anyone with SATs over 1300!</p>

<p>Friedokra, what’s your source?</p>

<p>Wash U must be left off by accident. Another post showed the follwing changes in admission rate. If Wash U’s admission rate has dropped this much, and the number they admit is about the same (or higher), then apps must be way up.</p>

<p>ACCEPTANCE RATE </p>

<p>2008 , 1999 , Positive Change, College</p>

<p>38% , 62% , 24% U Chicago
34% , 58% , 24% Vanderbilt
47% , 69% , 22% U Michigan
25% , 46% , 21% USC
21% , 40% , 19% Wash U
32% , 46% , 14% Emory
27% , 41% , 14% Johns Hopkins
18% , 31% , 13% U Penn
27% , 40% , 13% Notre Dame
13% , 25% , 12% MIT
26% , 36% , 10% UCLA
25% , 34% , 9% Cornell
9% , 18% , 9% Yale
34% , 43% , 9% Carnegie Mellon
24% , 31% , 7% UC Berkeley
23% , 30% , 7% Duke
17% , 23% , 6% Caltech
16% , 22% , 6% Dartmouth
12% , 17% , 5% Columbia
27% , 32% , 5% Tufts
9% , 13% , 4% Harvard
11% , 15% , 4% Stanford
14% , 18% , 4% Brown
24% , 27% , 3% Rice
10% , 13% , 3% Princeton
34% , 37% , 3% U North Carolina</p>

<p>“Tulane is hot because they give a free app to anyone with SATs over 1300!”</p>

<p>I attended a Wash U. information session in our area with my son. The admissions rep. emphasized to those in attendance that Wash U. did not require any essays to complete its supplement to the Common App. This is the only school that my son considered which did not require any extra work to toss off an application. The message given by the admissions rep. was not lost on him or the other kids in attendance. He was ready to apply to Wash U. sight unseen if he had not been admitted to his E.D. school.
Other peer institutions require essays particular to their supplements which deter people from sending in applications simply becuase it is easy to do so. Given Wash U. unique admissions practices, I wouldn’t be too critical of Tulane.</p>

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I can’t really remember the stats, but there were a number of schools when I applied that didn’t require an additional essay, or required an extremely short “why I want to go here” essay (which was as easy as replacing the school’s name for me).</p>

<p>I am referring to peer institutions. Michigan, NU, Columbia, Tufts, BU, Bucknell, Lehigh etc. - No other school of this order simply accepted the common app essays and nothing more. Even Wash U’s rep acknowledged as much, basically arguing that with Wash U’s application requirements, if you have already filled out the common app. why would you not apply. As to the Why ___ essays, if you simply used the same essay and just changed the name of the school, you were probably wasting your time filling out the application. Even the common app. essays are easy if you simply don’t put any thought into it.
If you doubt that the ease of the application process encourages students to apply look at the increase in the number of applications that schools receive when they initially switch to the common app.
My only point was that Wash U. is unusual in that it encourages as many people as possible to apply by adopting an easy application. This was the clear message of the session that I attended. This helps Wash U’s stats. In these circumstances, I thought it was a little unfair to question Tulane for essentially playing the same game.</p>

<p>As a high school senior, S is much more inclined to apply to a school he may or may not be interested in, if there is no extra essay on the supplement. In the grand scheme of things, although it’s nice for us as parents to not have to pay a $50-$75 application fee here or there, it’s not making much of a difference in the long run, and to S, “no extra essay” is much more desirable than “no application fee”. That extra essay(s) (or, in the case of one borderline school he eliminated, three unique extra essays - essays that had to be originals - couldn’t be adapted from other essays already written) can make the difference between applying or not applying to a school that’s not near the top of the list.</p>