American University |
Falling rate |
35 |
46 |
-24% |
Applications up 10%, admits down 15% due to higher expected yield |
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Barnard College |
Falling rate |
20 |
24 |
-17% |
Applications up 17%, suspect rate decline is also attributable to higher mix of early decision applicants |
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Bates College |
Falling rate |
21 |
25 |
-16% |
Applications up 12% this past year, more of enrolled class coming from early decision |
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Boston College |
Falling rate |
28 |
34 |
-18% |
Applications up 27%, admits up 5% |
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Boston University |
Falling rate |
32 |
35 |
-9% |
Admits down 6%, higher mix of early decision admits in enrolled class |
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Bucknell University |
Falling rate |
21 |
25 |
-16% |
Applications up 39% due to elimination of 1 of 3 essays and reduced application fee |
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Colby College |
Falling rate |
23 |
28 |
-18% |
Applications up 47% this past year, dropped supplemental essay and scaled recruiting outside New England |
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Emory University |
Falling rate |
23 |
27 |
-15% |
Applications up 15% overall, early decision applications up 29% |
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Franklin & Marshall College |
Falling rate |
32 |
39 |
-18% |
Applications up 30% |
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Grinnell College |
Falling rate |
25 |
28 |
-11% |
Applications up 6% due to new recruitment campaigns and diversity outreach, admits down 9% due to higher mix of early decision applicants |
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Johns Hopkins University |
Falling rate |
12 |
15 |
-20% |
Admits down 15%, likely due to high mix of early decision admits |
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Lehigh University |
Falling rate |
30 |
34 |
-12% |
Applications up 12% |
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Macalester College |
Improved rate |
39 |
36 |
8% |
Applications down 7%, admits down 7% |
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NYU |
Falling rate |
31 |
35 |
-12% |
Applications up 19% overall, early decision applications up 11%, enrolled class size up 9% due to new campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Early decision admits up 13% |
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Swarthmore College |
Falling rate |
12 |
17 |
-30% |
Applications up 42% this past year, increase due to removal of supplemental form and one essay, heightened outreach efforts |
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UC Davis |
Improved non-resident rate |
38 |
41 |
-8% |
Applications up 7%, admission mix shifted to "full pay" non-residents to counter budget uncertainty. Significant admit rate advantage exists for competitive out-of-state and international applicants (33% resident vs 61% out of state and 51% international) |
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UC Irvine |
Improved non-resident rate |
39 |
38 |
2% |
Applications up 8%, admits up 11% with emphasis on "full-pay" non-resident applicants. Significant admit rate advantage for competitive out-of-state and international applicants (33% resident vs 61% out of state and 55% international) |
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UC San Diego |
Improved non-resident rate |
34 |
34 |
0% |
Rise in "full pay" non-resident admission. Significant admit rate advantage for competitive out-of-state and international applicants (30% resident vs 46% out of state and 39% international) |
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UC Santa Barbara |
Falling rate |
33 |
36 |
-9% |
Applications up 6%, admits down 5% |
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UC Santa Cruz |
Falling resident rate |
51 |
57 |
-11% |
Applications up 11%, drove resident admission down from 54% to 46% |
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UCLA |
Falling rate |
17 |
19 |
-11% |
Applications up 7% |
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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Improved resident rate |
65 |
56 |
16% |
Applications down 4%, admits up 11% to counteract resident underenrollment in previous years; school has shifted to one notification date |
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University of Michigan |
Falling rate |
26 |
32 |
-19% |
Applications up 4% but admits down 16% to counter chronic overenrollment. Note: Michigan is proactively deferring more early action applicants to the regular decision pool to reach a target admit rate more in parity with the overall rate of 33%.
Waitlists will be used more extensively as well to control overenrollment. |
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Wake Forest University |
Falling rate |
28 |
34 |
-18% |
Applications up 20% overall, early decision applications up 18% and now accounting for 40% of the entering class |
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