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Applications Increase at Dozens of Selective Colleges

Applications to the Class of 2015 were up again this year at numeorus U.S. colleges and universities.

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- Class of Class of - -
- 2015 2014 Percent Percent
- Applied Applied Increase Decrease
American Univ. 18,638 16,953 9.9% -
Amherst College 8,432 8,099 4.1% -
Babson 5,074 4,061 24.9% -
Barvard 5,133 4,618 11.2% -
Bates 5,146 4,518 13.9% -
Boston Univ. 41,734 38,275 9.0% -
Boston College 33,000 29,933 10.2% -
Bowdoin 6,544 6,018 8.7% -
Brandeis 8,675 7,738 12.1% -
Brown 31,000 30,136 2.9% -
Bucknell 7,829 7,191 8.9% -
Caltech 5,169 4,859 6.4% -
Carnegie Mellon 16,497 15,496 6.5% -
Case Western 13,363 9,247 44.5% -
Colby 5,170 4,213 22.7% -
Colgate 7,763 7,871 - 1.4%
Columbia 34,587 26,179 32.1% -
Cornell 36,273 36,338   0.2%
Dartmouth 22,140 18,778 17.9% -
Davidson 4,734 4,084 15.9% -
Dickinson 6,013 4,922 22.2% -
Duke 29,561 26,770 10.4% -
Elon 9,010 9,591 - 6.1%
Emerson 7,345 6,567 11.8% -
Emory 17,006 15,550 9.4% -
Fordham 30,759 26,816 14.7% -
George Washington 21,400 21,200 0.9% -
Georgia Tech 14,100 13,550 4.1% -
Georgetown 19,400 18,079 7.3% -
Goucher 3,800 3,587 5.9% -
Grinnell 2,925 3,166 - 7.6%
Hamilton 5,264 4,857 8.4% -
Harvard 35,000 30,489 14.8% -
Harvey Mudd 3,122 2,718 14.9% -
Haverford 3,471 3,312 4.8% -
Johns Hopkins 19,201 18,459 4.0% -
Kenyon 4,300 4,064 5.8% -
Lafayette 5,638 5,822 - 3.2%
Lehigh 11,500 10,328 11.3% -
Lewis & Clark 5,805 5,239 10.8% -
Macalester 6,071 4,317 40.6% -
MIT 17,908 16,632 7.7% -
Middlebury 8,498 7,984 6.4% -
NYU 42,242 38,037 11.1% -
Northeastern 42,850 37,710 13.6% -
Northwestern 30,925 27,615 12.0% -
Notre Dame 16,512 14,527 13.7% -
Penn State 50,508 47,277 6.8% -
Pepperdine 9,337 7,949 17.5% -
Pomona College 7,189 6,794 5.8% -
Princeton 27,115 26,247 3.3% -
Rensselaer Polytech 12,912 11,606 11.3% -
Rice 13,776 12,393 11.2% -
Skidmore 5,701 5,931 - 3.9%
Smith 4,105 4,015 2.2% -
Standford 34,000 32,022 6.2% -
Swarthmore 6,581 6,092 8.0% -
Syracuse 25,093 22,146 13.3% -
Trinity (CT) 6,909 4,688 47.4% -
Tufts 17,094 15,433 10.8% -
Tulane 37,574 43,368 - -13.4%
Union 5,064 4,874 3.9% -
UC Berkely 52,920 50,312 5.2% -
UCLA 60,823 57,670 5.5% -
Univ Chicago 21,669 19,374 11.8% -
U. of Illinois 28,687 27,310 5.0% -
U Maryland 25,704 26,147 - 1.7%
U Michigan   31,613 20.0%  
UNC Chapel Hill 23,473 23,271 0.9% -
U Penn 31,651 26,941 17.5% -
U Richmond 9,355 8,661 8.0% -
U Rochester 13,339 12,509 6.6% -
USC 38,000 35,794 6.2% -
U Virginia 23,962 22,512 6.4% -
U Wisconsin 25,775 25,522 1.0% -
Vanderbilt 24,650 21,811 13.0% -
Vassar 7,983 7,822 2.1% -
Villanova 15,352 14,361 6.9% -
Washington & Lee 6,465 6,382 1.3% -
Washington Univ. 28,800 24,939 15.5% -
Wesleyan University 10,010 10,657 - 6.1%
Wheaton 2,020 1,991 1.5% -
William & Mary 12,776 12,539 1.9% -
Wllliams 7,008 6,634 5.6% -
Yale 27,230 25,869 5.3% -

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