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Freshman Admissions Statistics - Fall 2003

Institution Number of Applicants Number of Admits Number Enrolled Admit/ Applied Rate Enroll/ Admit Rate
Univ. of California - San Diego 
43,438
17,618
3,799
40.6%
21.6%
University of California - Davis
32,506
19,367
4,786
59.6%
24.7%
Pennsylvania State U. - University Park
31,264
17,174
6,048
54.9%
35.2%
Rutgers - New Brunswick (NJ)
27,311
14,857
4,717
54.4%
31.7%
Purdue Univ. - West Lafayette (IN)
22,977
18,076
6,371
78.7%
35.2%
U. of Illinois - Urbana - Champaign
22,269
13,939
6,811
62.6%
48.9%
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
20,601
13,402
5,578
65.1%
41.6%
Virginia Tech 
18,028
12,387
4,856
68.7%
39.2%
UNC-Chapel Hill
17,591
6,441
3,516
36.6%
54.6%
Texas A&M Univ. - College Station 
17,250
11,639
6,726
67.5%
57.8%
Duke University (NC)
15,761
3,861
1,642
24.5%
42.5%
Carnegie Mellon University
14,467
5,561
1,341
38.4%
24.1%
North Carolina State U. - Raleigh
12,867
7,947
3,851
61.8%
48.5%
University of Georgia
11,813
8,885
5,190
75.2%
58.4%
Iowa State University
9,035
8,116
3,847
89.8%
47.4%
Georgia Institute of Technology
8,573
5,386
2,237
62.8%
41.5%
Case Western Reserve Univ.
4,680
3,525
878
75.3%
24.9%
Average Excluding NC State University
19,848
11,265
4,271
60%
39%

Source: US News, America's Best Colleges 2005

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