By Heather Kamins Daily Staff Reporter Following a surge of applications to the University's undergraduate schools at the beginning of the decade, a national trend has brought a drop in applicant rates this year. LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg announced the University's applicant rates for the class of 2001 were significantly lower than in past years. The finding was presented to the LSA executive committee at the start of the month. But they are down across the country. Admissions are not down.
Early admission is at a rate that is equal to last year.
Undergraduate Admissions Director Theodore Spencer said he estimates that this year's applicant rates are down 4-5 percent. We receive 20,000 applications and we only enroll 5,000. We do not think that the quality of applicants has diminished in any way. Education Lincoln Faller said the decline in this year's University applicant rates may be part of a national trend. Applications have been inching up over the last few years.