It's still early to have a final count, but we have just under 22,000 first-year applications. This is an increase. I thought apps would go down (you can search posts from last year for my thinking on that).
Back to reading...it's going to be a long season.
Since this came up in the comments, I thought I'd post this here. Total apps from past years:
2005: 15,922
2006: 16,298
2007: 18,046
2008: 18,598
2009: 21,831
If you want to see more, you can find all kinds of data in the Data Digest and Historical Summaries on the Office of Institutional Assessment website. Hit the "statistics" tag below to see past blog posts that contained data.
