2011年美国大学申请人继续上升

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Applications Rise (Yet Again) at Dozens of Selective Colleges

By JACQUES STEINBERG and ERIC PLATT, New York Times, Jan 31,2011

No one can ever say for sure why applications rise (or fall) at a particular college or university in a particular year. Sometimes institutions make their own luck, deciding to blanket a high school graduating class with come-ons to apply; other times, the buzz may spread virally, taking on a life of its own.

In compiling the chart above — which documents the change in applications this year, compared with last, at nearly 100 colleges and universities that responded to queries we sent by e-mail — The Choice is seeking to help applicants put their own submissions in some statistical context.

The 5,146 students who applied for the next freshman class at Bates, for example, represent a 14 percent increase; the 13,363 at Case Western, a spike of nearly 45 percent; the 9,337 at Pepperdine, a jump of 17.4 percent.

For the most part, we’re going to leave it to applicants, parents, counselors and admissions officers to draw their own conclusions about the reasons underlying the trends at these institutions, and others. Readers are invited to use the comment box below to provide any insight borne of personal experience.

One trend, though, does seem some obvious: the increase in applications reported by Columbia University (32 percent) and the University of Michigan (18 percent, as the Feb. 1 application deadline looms) would seem, at least in part, to be a function of those institutions’ choosing to accept the Common Application this year for the first time.

With that, the only other observation we will offer is that, yet again, the sluggish economy and increasing cost of a college education appear to have done nothing to cool applicants’ interest in those institutions that, historically, have been among the most difficult to get into.

Colleges wishing to submit data to be considered for this list may do so by sending an e-mail to [e-mail].

 

2011 Application Tally: Updated Feb. 28, 2011.

Institution	Total Applications 2011	Total Applications 2010	Change as a Percentage
American (D.C)	18,638	16,953	9.94%
Amherst (Mass.)	8,432	8,099	4.11%
Babson (Mass.)	5,074	4,061	24.94%
Barnard (N.Y.)	5,133	4,618	11.15%
Bates (Me.)	5,146	4,518	13.90%
Boston U.	41,734	38,275	9.04%
Boston College	33,000	29,933	10.25%
Bowdoin (Me.)	6,544	6,018	8.74%
Brandeis (Mass.)	8,915	7,753	14.99%
Brown (R.I.)	31,000	30,136	2.87%
Bucknell (Pa.)	7,829	7,191	8.87%
California Tech.	5,169	4,859	6.38%
Carleton College (Minn.)	4,960	4,862	2.02%
Carnegie Mellon (Pa.)	16,497	15,496	6.46%
Case Western (Ohio)	13,363	9,247	44.51%
Claremont McKenna (Calif.)	4,458	4,264	4.55%
Colby (Me.)	5,170	4,213	22.72%
Colgate (N.Y.)	7,763	7,871	-1.37%
College of N.J.	10,090	9,956	1.35%
Columbia (N.Y.)	34,587	26,179	32.12%
Cooper Union (N.Y.)	3,505	3,354	4.50%
Cornell (N.Y.)	36,273	36,338	-0.18%
Dartmouth (N.H.)	22,140	18,778	17.90%
Davidson (N.C.)	4,734	4,084	15.92%
Dickinson (Pa.)	6,013	4,922	22.17%
Duke (N.C.)	29,561	26,770	10.43%
Elon (N.C.)	9,010	9,591	-6.06%
Emerson (Mass.)	7,345	6,567	11.85%
Emory (Ga.)	17,006	15,550	9.36%
Fordham (N.Y.)	30,759	26,816	14.70%
Franklin & Marshall (Pa.)	4,953	4,742	4.45%
George Washington (D.C.)	21,400	21,200	0.94%
Georgia Tech.	14,100	13,550	4.06%
Georgetown (D.C.)	19,400	18,079	7.31%
Goucher (Md.)*	3,800	3,587	5.94%
Grinnell (Iowa)	2,925	3,166	-7.61%
Hamilton (N.Y.)	5,264	4,857	8.38%
Harvard (Mass.)	35,000	30,489	14.80%
Harvey Mudd (Calif.)	3,122	2,718	14.86%
Haverford (Pa.)	3,471	3,312	4.80%
Johns Hopkins (Md.)	19,201	18,459	4.02%
Kenyon (Ohio)	4,300	4,064	5.81%
Lafayette (Pa.)	5,638	5,822	-3.16%
Lehigh (Pa.)	11,500	10,328	11.35%
Lewis & Clark (Ore.)	5,805	5,239	10.80%
Macalester (Minn.)	6,071	4,317	40.63%
M.I.T.	17,908	16,632	7.67%
Middlebury (Vt.)	8,498	7,984	6.44%
N.Y.U.	42,242	38,037	11.06%
Northeastern (Mass.)	42,850	37,710	13.63%
Northwestern (Ill.)	30,925	27,615	11.99%
Notre Dame (Ind.)	16,512	14,527	13.66%
Pennsylvania State	50,508	47,277	6.83%
Pepperdine (Calif.)	9,337	7,949	17.46%
Pomona College (Calif.)	7,189	6,794	5.81%
Princeton (N.J.)	27,115	26,247	3.31%
Rensselaer Polytechnic (N.Y.)*	12,912	11,606	11.25%
Rice (T.X.)	13,776	12,393	11.16%
Rutgers, New Brunswick (N.J.)	29,092	29,774	-2.29%
Skidmore (N.Y.)	5,701	5,931	-3.88%
Smith (Mass.)	4,105	4,015	2.24%
Stanford (Calif.)	34,000	32,022	6.18%
SUNY, Binghamton	28,700	27,248	5.33%
SUNY, Stony Brook	27,182	27,605	-1.53%
Swarthmore (Pa.)	6,581	6,092	8.03%
Syracuse (N.Y.)	25,093	22,146	13.31%
Trinity (Conn.)	6,909	4,688	47.38%
Tufts (Mass.)	17,094	15,433	10.76%
Tulane U. (La.)	37,574	43,368	-13.36%
Union (N.Y.)	5,064	4,874	3.90%
U.C., Berkeley	52,920	50,312	5.18%
U.C., Los Angeles	60,823	57,670	5.47%
U. of Chicago	21,669	19,374	11.85%
U. of Connecticut*	25,294	20,425	23.84%
U. of Georgia	18,000	17,450	3.15%
U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	28,687	27,310	5.04%
U. of Maryland, College Park*	25,704	26,147	-1.69%
U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor*	N/A	31,613	18.00%
U.N.C., Chapel Hill*	23,473	23,271	0.87%
U. of Pennsylvania	31,651	26,941	17.48%
U. of Richmond	9,355	8,661	8.01%
U. of Rochester	13,339	12,509	6.64%
U. of Southern California	38,000	35,794	6.16%
U. of Virginia	23,962	22,512	6.44%
U. of Wisconsin, Madison*	25,775	25,522	0.99%
Vanderbilt (Tenn.)	24,650	21,811	13.02%
Vassar (N.Y.)	7,983	7,822	2.06%
Villanova (Pa.)	15,352	14,361	6.90%
Washington & Lee (Va.)	6,465	6,382	1.30%
Washington U. in St. Louis (M.O.)	28,800	24,939	15.48%
Wesleyan U. (Conn.)	10,010	10,657	-6.07%
Wheaton	2,020	1,991	1.46%
William & Mary (Va.)	12,776	12,539	1.89%
Williams (Mass.)	7,008	6,634	5.64%
Yale (Conn.)	27,230	25,869	5.26%

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