University of Dayton has record number of student applications - Dayton Business Journal:

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The Dayton campus has received morethan 12,00p0 applications, putting the university in a position to becomes even more selective in its admissions. Last year, the universitgy reported a record 11,578 applications for its 2008 academic year and enrolleda near-record 1,995. The university typically enrolls 1,750 to 1,80p students in its first-year class. “While it has been a challenging year for many private schools, we have had tremendous success in balancing all the goalsz we have for a first-year class,” said Sundarf Kumarasamy, vice president of enrollment in a news release.
“We think that all of the investmenty and preparedness we have done in the past few anticipating a drop in number of potential highschool seniors, has paid off this year.” Kumarasamy said the incoming 2009 first-yeafr class is expected to be the best academically preparedd class in the university’s history, with significant increasezs in college entrance test scores, high schoo l GPAs and high school The school also has seen a jump in its out-of-stated enrollment, which is expected to jump three percentage pointsw from last year to 46 percent — up from 39 percenty in 2007. Students from more than 95 countriessubmittede applications.
UD has attracted record applicationsx in six of the pastsevenh years. The university had a totapl undergraduate enrollment last yearof 10,920, makingt it the fourth largest university in the region, accordinyg to Dayton Business Journal research.