Does anyone know how many applications Ohio Wesleyan received for the class of 2012? Last year's number was 4000 according to IPED but everytime anyone asks Hillary Lowbridge or Dana Behum from the Admissions Office about the number this year and they can't give a straight answer or respond with "more than we received 3 years ago which was less than 2 years ago and the square root probability having less than this year"....the office should have more accountability for its work I think! It seems like the office is deliberately hiding an easy number to compute so that students can not track what is going on with applications, our selectivity as a college. For example, Denison, Oberlin and Kenyon have seen a drastic decrease in their admit rates. This begs the question are we the only college from that group that doesn't?

One an interesting note, another blogger from here computer a measure "College popularity: number of applications per enrollee". It is supposed to capture college popularity better than the conventional yield rate. Here is what the list with number from IPEDS for 2007 looks like:

Pomona College 15.8
Claremont McKenna College 15.4
Pitzer College 15.4
Swarthmore College 14.4
Amherst College 14.1
Harvey Mudd College 12.7
Bowdoin College 12.5
Colgate University 11.8
Occidental College 11.5
Williams College 11.2
Haverford College 11.1
Middlebury College 11.0
Ursinus College 11.0
Lafayette College 10.7
Hamilton College 10.6
Drew University 10.6
Trinity College 10.3
Macalester College 10.2
Bard College 10.1
Kenyon College 10.1
Bucknell University 10.1
Wesleyan University 10.1
Bates College 10.0
Colby College 10.0
Skidmore College 9.9
College of the Holy Cross 9.8
Reed College 9.7
Carleton College 9.5
Oberlin College 9.4
Dickinson College 9.4
Colorado College 9.3
Spelman College 9.2
Vassar College 9.1
Goucher College 9.0
Denison University 8.9
Wheaton College 8.8
Gettysburg College 8.8
Franklin and Marshall College 8.8
Connecticut College 8.7
Scripps College 8.7
Muhlenberg College 8.5
Davidson College 8.4
University of Richmond 8.3
Hanover College 8.2
University of Puget Sound 8.2
Barnard College 8.2
Randolph-Macon College 8.1
Rhodes College 8.1
Washington and Lee University 8.0
Knox College 7.9
Sarah Lawrence College 7.7
Grinnell College 7.7
Allegheny College 7.5
St Lawrence University 7.4
Agnes Scott College 7.3
Lawrence University 7.3
Whitman College 7.1
Hobart William Smith Colleges 7.0
Willamette University 6.9
Centre College 6.8
Wellesley College 6.8
Beloit College 6.6
Ohio Wesleyan University 6.6
Wells College 6.6
Mount Holyoke College 6.2
Sewanee: The University of the South 6.0
Bryn Mawr College 6.0
Mills College 5.9
The College of Wooster 5.8
Earlham College 5.8
Kalamazoo College 5.8
Wabash College 5.7
Furman University 5.7
Illinois Wesleyan University 5.5
DePauw University 5.5
St. Olaf College 5.4
Wofford College 5.3
St Mary's College of Maryland 5.3
Juniata College 5.2
Southwestern University 5.2
Austin College 5.1
New College of Florida 5.1
Birmingham Southern College 5.1
Smith College 5.1
Bennington College 5.0
Gustavus Adolphus College 4.9
Union College 4.5
Albion College 4.4
Augustana College 4.3
Millsaps College 4.2
Presbyterian College 3.9
Wheaton College 3.7
Virginia Military Institute 3.7
Hendrix College 3.6
Hope College 3.4
Hollins University 3.1
Sweet Briar College 3.1
College of Saint Benedict 2.9
Saint Johns University 2.7
Thomas Aquinas College 2.2
Principia College 1.7

The reasoning behind this being a better measure than the yield is that the yield is affected by too many other factors such as competition, ED games, special interests such as religion, finances, and so on. Yield results in very weird ranking.

Based on yield, Brigham Young, Yeshiva, Thomas Aquinas, Principia, Texas A&M, VMI are among the top 20 schools in the country.