After long months of anticipation, applicants to the University received their admissions decision letters Friday, March 28.
14,855 students applied to the University this year, up from last year's pool of 14,591. Of that pool, the University offered admission to 5,661 students.
The number of students accepted during regular admission increased this year because of a decrease in the number of students accepted early.
Last year, 2,999 students accepted offers to enroll.
This year, Admissions Dean John Blackburn said he expects the number of students who will accept their offers to increase because of the larger acceptance pool of this spring's regular admissions, compared with last spring's admissions.
"We've taken slightly larger groups in early decision the past few years and we had to become more selective in regular admissions," Blackburn said. "We now worked it out so early and regular admissions have the same amount of selectivity."
Of the 5,876 Virginia residents who applied for admission, 3,025 were accepted. 8,979 out-of-state residents applied and 2,636 were accepted.
Of the 7,872 women who applied to the University, 2,989 were accepted, while 2,672 men were accepted out of 6,983 applicants.
"The University has been following the national trend," University spokesperson Carol Wood said. "For the past four or five years, women have been sending more applications to colleges nationwide."
Nonresident aliens registered one of the largest increases in applications. Last year, 711 applied, compared with 911 applicants this year. This year 451 nonresident aliens were accepted, an increase of 2.3 percent from last year.
The number of African-American, Asian-American and Hispanic students accepted this year decreased slightly from last year.
This demographic is a "rather small portion of our pool of applicants," Blackburn said. "We've just been more selective."
There was also an increase in racially "unclassified" student applications. This year, 1,108 students chose not to list their ethnicity, compared to 833 last year. Offers to unclassified students also increased: 414 were accepted this year, while 304 unclassified students were accepted last year.
In this year's pool of accepted students, 83 percent were ranked in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. The median SAT score of the newly accepted class is 1330.
There was a significant increase in the amount of applicants who applied online. Last year, between 17 and 18 percent of applicants applied online, compared to 48 percent this year.
"I think people are just more comfortable doing things online," Blackburn said. "Also, if the applicants applied online, they could see the decision online -- they did not have to worry about getting the decision through the mail."
Each year since 1996, 55 more students were accepted to the University than the previous year. The University currently enrolls 12,700 students. The goal is to reach 13,000 students. Blackburn said he believes this goal will be reached in at least two years.
Overall, 158 students were offered admission to the School of Architecture, 4,321 to the College, 1,118 to the School of Engineering and 64 to the School of Nursing.
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