Release from Jeff Brenzel Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Yale University January 21, 2013 Yale College has

received 29,790 applications for the Class of 2017. The applicant total is an alltime high for the college, and a 3% increase over the previous years final total of 28,977. Yale expects to admit approximately 2,000 students from the applicant pool, about the same total as last year. As a result, Yales rate of admission for the class entering this fall is expected to drop a bit below last years 7.1%. Every year, I am asked about the significance of application counts, and my answer every year is the same: year to year fluctuations in total application counts have little meaning in themselves. Some schools drive application counts higher by heavy solicitation of applications, even if many candidates are highly unlikely to be competitive for admission. Other schools restrain their marketing efforts to focus on the most competitive students for their institutions. At Yale, we take the second approach: targeting our outreach and promotion to the most competitive students from every family background and region, especially those who might be otherwise underrepresented in our admissions pool but are highly qualified. The scores and grades of our applicants, our admitted students and the students who accept our offers all reflect our consistent practice over time they have averaged the highest of any colleges in the nation as our applications have doubled since 2001. This year, we also provided a new opportunity to our applicants. By checking an optional box on Yales Common Application Supplement, an applicant to Yale could then request that a copy of his or her application materials be shared with Yale-NUS College, the new liberal arts college in Singapore that Yale is jointly founding with the National University of Singapore. Indicating the extremely strong interest generated by the new school in Asia, over 9,200 U.S. citizens and international citizens who are applying to Yale this year have chosen to use this option. Many additional students are also applying to Yale-NUS using the new colleges own application. We are thrilled that so many top students from around the world have shared their Yale applications with us here at Yale-NUS, says Jeremiah Quinlan, Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid at Yale-NUS. "Even though the College will open its doors for the first time this coming fall of 2013, my colleagues at Yale-NUS have been overwhelmed by the level of interest and quality of students from every continent who are applying to Yale-NUS, both those sharing their Yale applications and those applying only to Yale-NUS . Given the high flow of applications we are seeing as word of the new college continues to spread, we have decided to move up our application deadline in Singapore to April 1 from April 15, in order to ensure we have sufficient time to send out all decisions by the middle of May. Yale-NUS will be releasing its complete application number totals in May after all rounds of admissions for its inaugural cohort are complete.

Yale College and Yale-NUS operate entirely independent admissions processes, with two different staffs in different locations. No admissions decisions are communicated between the two offices, and if a student happens to receive an admissions offer from both colleges, he or she will be entirely free to choose to attend either institution.