Grad Applications Up at Some Schools
Applications to a number of graduate schools around the country increased this year, sometimes significantly. Some others didn't fare so well.
- At MIT, an admissions officer predicts total applications will be up 15 percent from last year. The figure does not include the Sloan School of Management, which has yet to report its numbers and, if it follows the trend for other business schools, promises its own impressive set of applicant growth.
- By late January, the Thayer School of Engineering's master's and Ph.D program at Dartmouth was seeing an 18 to 20 percent jump in applicants since 2008. The parallel programs in arts and sciences saw a 6 to 8 percent increase.
- As of January 13, Duke graduate schools had 33 percent more applicants when compared with last year. That's a total of 8,303 applications for fall 2009, the most the school has seen in 10 years (not coincidentally, the start of the dot-com bust.)
- And as previously reported, George Washington University's grad apps are up 7 percent.</li>
- Texas Tech reports a modest 2.7 percent increase in enrollees, while Temple and the University of Maryland have seen little change in grad apps this year.
- Cornell's Johnson School of Business has seen applications decrease 14 percent.
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Having more applicants to universities than expected do not harm
İn some cases knowingly it is better to have more number of applicants to the Universities than fewer applicants to be enrolled in Universities.
A country can do better to rebuild its image and infrastructure of its environment with more qualified graduates among the population regardless wether or not those graduates have yet found a job.
Secondly separating high class wealthier students from those who are not able to study for every reasons at all can only lead to going backwards as a country. United States apparently need to have many graduates to make more progress in social and smart bussiness issues and continuing to be the leader worldwide in any political and economic areas. The acceptance of a country as a leader in the world requires first of all a socialized, well educated and aware population which actually means for a country to educate as many students as possible. Having more applicants to the Universities than the capacity at Universities can shoulder it may cause more unpleasant circumstances, which is a temporary matter.
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