“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. [...]

They are up!
The University of Richmond received 8,500 applications for 805 slots, a 9 percent increase. Applications are up 6 percent at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., and 3 percent at George Washington University in the District. The University of Virginia fielded 22,396 applications, an all-time high. The College of William and Mary, [...]

College confidential is summarizing a whole lot of substantial increases both in private and public schools.
1. Cal State System +50%
2. Chicago +42%
3. Loyola (MD) +30%
4. UMBC +27%
5. Hawaii-Manoa +25%
6. Brown +20%
7. Princeton +19%
8. DePauw +18%
9. Penn +17%
10. Middlebury +15%
11. Hopkins +13%
12. Duke +11%
13. Northwestern +8%
14. Harvard +5%
15. Cornell +5%
15. MIT +5%
15. Stanford +5%
18. Dartmouth +4%
19. [...]

Well following Chicago’s bombshell (and Brown and Johns Hopkins) some other numbers are coming in:
STANFORD apps are up 5% to about 32,000,
and PRINCETON apps are up 19% to 26,166
Duke University: More than 26,400 high school seniors have submitted applications for admission to Duke University this year, eclipsing last year’s record by 2,500, or 11 percent.
Why [...]

Firstly sad news from the UK:
Those cutting places include the London School of Economics, Essex and Edinburgh University, while universities freezing numbers include Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, King’s College London, Imperial College London and Warwick.
The biggest cut, however, is at Edinburgh — it is reducing its 2010 intake by 1,300 places, nearly a third of the total….Among [...]

University of Virginia is predicting a modest increase in applications:  about 3 percent to 4 percent ahead of last year’s total of 21,831.
University of California is also reporting an increase: The University of California received 7,328 more applicants this year over last, a nearly 6 percent increase–but two thirds of the increase is from transfer students.

Jeffrey Brenzel, admissions dean at Yale, said via e-mail that the video is “a campy musical extravaganza that also manages to convey the real spirit of the students and the place.”
Check out the commentary in Inside highered and The New York times has this doozie:
For heaven’s sake, it’s YALE, not Taco Bell. With their miniscule [...]

Well following Chicago’s bombshell (and Brown and Johns Hopkins) some other numbers are coming in: STANFORD apps are up 5% to about 32,000, and PRINCETON apps are up 19% to 26,166 Duke University: More than 26,400 high school seniors have submitted applications for admission to Duke University this year, eclipsing last year’s record [...]

Long before there was the Bucket List, a young many wrote a list of 100 things he wanted to do before he died. This later became the title of a book.
MTV has a new series following four young people around as they pursue their list.

News out of Maryland has applications up at

Johns Hopkins–ED up 10% and regular is up 13%
UMBC–up 17%
Loyola–up 30%

This follows on the news that Chicago had a whopping 42% increase after a marketing blitz to bring in more applicants. Harvard is up 5% and Brown 20%