Private meetings with the board, he said, have led some "hopeless cases" to give up before filing applications, while some applicants grew discouraged during hearings and dropped out.
At the University of Chicago, international applicants grew 23percentto to 1,826, and early admissions applicants rose 46percentto to 4,430, Theodore A. O'Neill, dean of admissions, said.
As the number of applicants grows, budgets stagnate or shrink, and funding rates fall, scientists submit more proposals and funding rates fall further.
A pilot program in the customer sales and service team at Tesltra saw the number of women in the applicant pool grow by more than 15percentt, and the share of women in job placements increase by 35percentt.
The number of family shelter applicants has grown 10percentt in the last year alone, he said.
51 EDUCATION New Challenges for Applicants A growing number of students vie for a static number of slots at the nation's 3,500 colleges and universities, perhaps 50 the focus of feverish interest.
In Paris, for instance, is a private computer and telecommunications college, known from its inital as Epita, where the number of applicants has grown by 25percentt each of the last three years, even though students must pay about $4,500 a year for their schooling.
Moreover, the program is gaining in popularity each year: The number of applicants has grown from about 35 in the program's first year to 94 last year.
Penn's applicant has grown by 55 percent over the past five years, and the pool from India by 80 percent in that same time.
In Dr. Rodin's 10 years at Penn, the university's research money more than doubled, its annual gifts and endowment tripled, its applicant pool grew and its admissions office became more selective.
