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Almost 18,000 students, a record number (and a nearly 50 percent increase over five years) applied for admission to the class of 1999. The class was chosen from an applicant pool unprecedented in its quantity and quality. On every measure, the academic quality of the applicant pool rose. Over the past five years, the number of applicants ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school classes has risen from 1,993 to 2,828; those averaging 1400 or better on their combined SATs climbed from 3,884 to 6,099; students with a math...
...comprised the final applicant pool, only 12 percent could be admitted, our lowest admission rate ever. The yield remained 75.3 percent, the highest in over a decade and the highest of the nation's selective colleges by a wide margin...
Goldwitz said many students access the UCD system via modem. The fee increase is being considered mainly because the large number of students using the modem pool have driven up costs, she said...
While neither Shah nor Justin T. Lin '98, project coordinator of the Datamatch, could hazard a guess as to what kind of person might choose to participate, Lin noted that first-years comprised about one-half of the Datamatch pool...
...addition, Knowles wrote that "in the past four years, 26 percent of all new tenured appointments have been of women, and this proportion exceeds all the estimates of 'availability' in the pool of candidates for such positions...