Colleges With the Biggest Decrease in Applicants
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Love that UCONN is #17. Please post this on their site and tell them its all because they are a G5 school. Heads will explode.
I could be interpreting the slideshow incorrectly, but that looks like a UConn branch campus, not the Storrs campus.
You may be right, I was running through them quickly. It would still be funny to post that premise on their site.
50 schools by click-through. Ridiculous. Not that interested.
Probably because they're in Newark and Camden.
actually surprised as I thought Rutgers was shifting more applicants there and making NB more selective.
NB is definitely more selective but a lot of kids who don't get into NB would rather go to Rowan in South Jersey or one of the other state schools in North Jersey. Rutgers Newark isn't exactly a nice campus. I never been to Camden.
Neither Newark or Camden have become worse as cities over the last decade, and maybe they've even improved a bit. So the fall in applications at both campuses is a little hard to explain. I suspect there's a Rowan factor at work in Camden's case; Rowan, which has money, has done a better job of establishing itself as a plausible place to go to college.
Montclair state has increased in size tremendously. Probable a reason for Rutgers Newark.
I'm guessing the list is mostly public schools. When the economy improves and certain people feel richer they're more likely to send the kids to a private school.
The campus is actually nice -- kind of a vestpocket park-- and is located fairly well away from the city's poverty and crime. The town itself has had some improvement, but no one who could live elsewhere would live in Camden.
I've actually never heard that term. The campus is beside the Ben Franklin bridge, not under it. The term may become more apt if the campus goes through with its plans to build a parking deck on the other side of the bridge. (That parking deck is going to need a *lot* of security because it will be on Camden's north side.)
Just looked at change in the total number of applicants? ? really a very broad and crude metric because so many factors enter into the picture - like how the University may have changed course offerings or added/eliminated majors ... or simply how expensive the application is - or - how much extra work a prospective student has to do to complete the application - some schools accept the 'common app' and to add that school to the list of places that you apply to - just requires you to put an 'x' in a box and pay the fee .
Note the decrease in number of applicants that Boston College experienced when they increased the effort required to submit an application -
"Applications reached an all-time high in 2012, when about 34,000 students applied. The next year, after the University introduced a supplementary essay to the Common Application, applications dropped 28 percent, to just under 24,500."
So between 2012 and 2013 BC saw a 28% decline in total applicants - out of context, this could seem shocking - but upon examination, it is not earthshattering
BC reduced the number of applications that they had to process - but probably did not reduce the number of highly interested prospects
... however their "selectiveness " statistic took a hit ....
- - which is a bit of a so-what because the simplistic 'selectiveness' figure ( percent of applicants accepted) is also a terribly crude and often pointless metric.
Note the decrease in number of applicants that Boston College experienced when they increased the effort required to submit an application -
"Applications reached an all-time high in 2012, when about 34,000 students applied. The next year, after the University introduced a supplementary essay to the Common Application, applications dropped 28 percent, to just under 24,500."
So between 2012 and 2013 BC saw a 28% decline in total applicants - out of context, this could seem shocking - but upon examination, it is not earthshattering
BC reduced the number of applications that they had to process - but probably did not reduce the number of highly interested prospects
... however their "selectiveness " statistic took a hit ....
- - which is a bit of a so-what because the simplistic 'selectiveness' figure ( percent of applicants accepted) is also a terribly crude and often pointless metric.
