{"id":55135,"date":"2012-02-17T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=55135"},"modified":"2012-02-24T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:47:59","slug":"uconn-receives-record-number-of-applications-for-fall-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/02\/uconn-receives-record-number-of-applications-for-fall-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Receives Record Number of Applications for Fall Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/summer_chem_090831a060.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55141 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/summer_chem_090831a060-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk along the sidewalk near a patch of daisies in front of the Chemistry Building. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/summer_chem_090831a060-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/summer_chem_090831a060-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/summer_chem_090831a060.jpg 630w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UConn will welcome a record-setting number of students in the fall of 2012. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Connecticut has received approximately 30,000 applications for undergraduate admission for fall 2012, a record-setting number besting last year\u2019s then-record of 28,100.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, the volume of applications to UConn has increased by 36 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, the University received about 13,600 applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile no single factor can explain the dramatic increase in interest, recent attention paid to UConn\u2019s rise in the national rankings to become a top 20 school among public universities certainly had an impact,\u201d said Nathan Fuerst, UConn\u2019s director of admissions. \u201cOur excellent academic reputation combined with our very competitive cost also means the University represents an outstanding value for families. Our athletic successes have also traditionally played a role in generating more interest in becoming a Husky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UConn is in the middle of the top 53 public universities in the nation when it comes to the cost of attending. Kiplinger\u2019s magazine recently named UConn one of the top 30 \u201cbest value\u201d public colleges and universities in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently estimated that the University will enroll approximately 3,225 freshmen at the Storrs campus for the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>UConn\u2019s rolling admissions deadlines mean that the University will continue to act on applications through May 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile UConn still has a considerable number of applications to review, this class of applicants appears to be very strong academically,\u201d said Fuerst. \u201cWe have good reason to be optimistic about the quality of this year&#8217;s freshman class.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 30,000 applications for undergraduate admissions have already been received for fall 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":55141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-55135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 06:34:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55472,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55135\/revisions\/55472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/55141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55135"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=55135"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}