increases in size of applicant pool, size of American citizen pool, and
very big increase in sizes of Women (both US and Chinese) applicants.
VERY big increase in number of US applicants from TOP 15 schools.
Applicants (as of deadline feb 1-more will come in)= 111
US applicants= 42
Chinese/Korean/Taiwanese applicants= 45
European= 2
FEMALE APPLICANTS: 40
(This is a huge number)
US FEMALE APPLICANTS= 16
OTHER FEMALE= 24
AFRICAN AMERICAN 3
HISPANIC 2
MULTIRACIAL AND OTHER 2
We have US applicants from: Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Penn,
Columbia, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Amherst, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Bryn
Mawr,
UT, Renselear, Notre Dame
We also have increases in the number of applicants from University of
Science and Technology of China and Beijing University in China, which
are among
the best schools, as i understand.