Colleges located in downtown areas - like Harvard, Yale, NYU and Columbia - continue to get more selective. Yale College's admissions rate hit 8.3% this year, breaking its former record of 8.6% in 2006 (which was, at the time, the Ivy League record-low); applications have increased by 91% since 1998. NYU received a record 37,000 applications, more than any other private university in the United States, and an increase of 51% since 1998.
Applications to colleges in urban settings, like Yale and NYU, have generally increased more rapidly than applications to their peers located in suburban or rural areas. For example, undergraduate applications to Stanford University have only increased by 27% over the past 10 years -- only slightly higher than the overall increase in college enrollment nation-wide. Reason? People are increasingly looking to live in walkable, dense, vibrant and diverse downtown settings with many 24/7 diversions -- where they don't need to spend 2 hours per day in their cars.
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I love the idea in this post, although when Princeton reports its admission numbers I wonder if it will hold up ...
Princeton has reported this year's numbers -- they have seen a 63% increase since 1998.
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