Applications increasing to selective universities
- Melis Karadeniz
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 15, 2022
There is a growing increase in the number of applications per student, up 34% from 8 years ago, driven by applicants to highly selectives. Applicants to colleges with admit rates below 20% now apply to more than 12 colleges each on average. I haven't heard many colleges complaining about the increased volume, though it can mess with their ability to predict yield and cause them to be less efficient with how they discount tuition.
Those applicants who submit many apps to highly-selectives tend to be:
applying ED (6x more likely than low volume applicants)
enrolled at private high schools (2.5x more likely)
score-submitters (8x more likely)
higher-scorers (130 pts higher on average)
from the Northeast
international
undeterred by the additional application materials often required by selective colleges
and wealthier (article doesn't get into this, but duh)
While the greatest number of students (650k, more than half) this year applied to 5 colleges or fewer, 260k students applied to 10 or more colleges through Common App. This share of high-volume applicants has more than doubled in 8 years. And the share of students applying to 20 colleges (the Common App's limit) has more than quadrupled over that period.
With nothing out there we can point to that might slow (much less reverse) these trends, at what point does this whole endeavor and its lofty ideals (such as a comprehensive read in a holistic eval process) just collapse under its own weight?
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