College Admission Application Numbers For Fall 2009 Class Rolling In....

Here is a totally unscientific sample of undergraduate programs reporting application data over the past few days.  It would appear top public universities and well-endowed elite private schools are showing strong growth in applications.  In addition, not surprisingly more students are applying for financial aid.   

In this corner, the public universities:

• University of Virginia saw 16% increase in applications
• University of California system saw 2.9% increase in applications
  • In-state applications rose 1.6%
  • Out-of-state applications rose 10% 
• Rice University applications running 12.4% ahead of the previous year's figures

Here is some data the private universities have reported recently:

• Brown University saw a 21% increase in applications
• Stanford University applications increased 20%
• Duke University is reporting a 17% increase in applications
  
• MIT applications rose 17% increase
• Dartmouth University is reporting 9% increase
• Harvard University had a 5.6% increase in applications
  • Almost 78 percent of the applicants are seeking financial aid, compared with 73 percent a year ago
• Santa Clara University is seeing application counts running about 3% ahead of last year's totals
• Princeton University has seen a 2% increase in applications
  • Seventy-five percent of students seeking entry applied for financial aid, up from 70 percent a year ago.
• Ohio University is about 2% below last year's application count with a February 1 deadline approaching

Comments

[Imee]

i think the bright side of all of this is that students are still willing to get educated despite the state of the world's finances. it's a good thing there are various types of help--loans, grants, scholarships--anything among those would be of great help already for those who are willing to study but don't have the means