Applications to Selective Colleges Rise as Admission Rates Fall
Monday, April 5th, 2010>
With many of the nation’s most selective colleges and universities scheduled to inform applicants of their decisions on Thursday, The Choice has been reaching out to those institutions in pursuit of some statistical context.
Though the figures so far are the equivalent of early returns on election night, one trend already appears to be emerging: applications to elite private colleges rose again this academic year, despite the economic constraints on many families, and admission rates often fell to record lows.
Harvard University, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell, Stanford, M.I.T. and Duke are each reporting sharp increases in applications this year in comparison to last year.
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PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES |
TOTAL APPS 2010 |
TOTAL APPS 2009 |
NUMBER CHANGE IN APPS |
PERCENT CHANGE IN APPS |
NUMBER ADMITTED 2010 |
ADMIT RATE 2010 |
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Binghamton Univ |
27132 |
29061 |
-1929 |
-6.64% |
10681 |
39.37% |
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SUNY New Paltz |
14785 |
15168 |
-383 |
-2.53% |
5301 |
35.85% |
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Texas-Austin |
31078 |
31362 |
-284 |
-0.91% |
14251 |
45.86% |
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U. of Iowa |
16795 |
15063 |
1732 |
11.50% |
13098 |
77.99% |
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U.C.-Berkeley |
50375 |
48640 |
1735 |
3.57% |
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UNC Chapel Hill |
23280 |
23047 |
233 |
1.01% |
6961 |
29.90% |
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Virginia |
22520 |
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6907 |
30.67% |
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Wisconsin-Madison |
25344 |
24677 |
667 |
2.70% |
13842 |
54.62% |
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PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES |
TOTAL APPS 2010 |
TOTAL APPS 2009 |
NUMBER CHANGE IN APPS |
PERCENT CHANGE IN APPS |
NUMBER ADMITTED 2010 |
ADMIT RATE 2010 |
|
Brown |
30136 |
24988 |
5148 |
20.60% |
2804 |
9.30% |
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Chicago |
19370 |
13564 |
5806 |
42.80% |
3560 |
18.38% |
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Columbia |
26178 |
25427 |
751 |
2.95% |
2397 |
9.16% |
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Cornell |
36337 |
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6.00% |
|
18.40% |
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Dartmouth |
18778 |
18132 |
646 |
3.44% |
2165 |
11.53% |
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Duke |
26770 |
23875 |
2895 |
12.13% |
3978 |
14.86% |
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Emory |
15549 |
15600 |
-51 |
-0.33% |
4444 |
28.58% |
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Harvard |
30489 |
29114 |
1375 |
4.72% |
2110 |
6.92% |
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M.I.T. |
16632 |
15661 |
971 |
6.20% |
1675 |
10.07% |
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Penn |
26938 |
22808 |
4130 |
18.11% |
3830 |
14.22% |
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Pomona |
6767 |
6149 |
618 |
10.05% |
980 |
14.48% |
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Princeton |
26247 |
21963 |
4284 |
19.51% |
2148 |
8.18% |
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Stanford |
32022 |
30429 |
1593 |
5.24% |
2300 |
7.18% |
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Swarthmore |
6040 |
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|
967 |
16.01% |
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Wesleyan |
10656 |
10068 |
588 |
5.84% |
2125 |
19.94% |
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Williams |
6633 |
6017 |
616 |
10.24% |
1202 |
18.12% |
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Yale |
25869 |
26003 |
-134 |
-0.52% |
1940 |
7.50% |