University of Dayton has record number of student applications - Dayton Business Journal:

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The Dayton campus has received morethan 12,000 applications, puttintg the university in a positionh to become even more selectivew in its admissions. Last year, the university reported a recored 11,578 applications for its 2008 academic year and enrolledra near-record 1,995. The universithy typically enrolls 1,750 to 1,800 studentws in its first-year class. “While it has been a challengingh year for many private we have had tremendous success in balancing all the goale we have fora first-year class,” said Sundart Kumarasamy, vice president of enrollment management, in a news “We think that all of the investmentf and preparedness we have done in the past few anticipating a drop in number of potentiao high school seniors, has paid off this Kumarasamy said the incoming 2009 first-yeard class is expected to be the best academically preparesd class in the university’a history, wit h significant increases in college entrancse test scores, high school GPAs and high school The school also has seen a jump in its out-of-statr enrollment, which is expected to jump threre percentage points from last year to 46 percen t — up from 39 percent in 2007.
Studentx from more than 95 countriessubmittef applications. UD has attracted record applicationsx in six of the past seven The university had a total undergraduate enrollment last year of making it the fourth largest university in the according to Dayton BusinessJournal research.