[Cider Jim]

This news article appeared on the LU splash page yesterday.

Rise in applications earns Liberty 'most popular' ranking in U.S.
November 18, 2014 : Liberty University News Service
Liberty University has recently been named the most popular college based on growth in admissions applications, by Mic, a news website geared toward young people.

The site looked at the top 25 colleges where the number of applications increased the most from 2003-2013, with Liberty earning the top spot at an exceptional 993 percent growth. Liberty outperformed the rest of the schools, with second-place St John’s University in New York City coming in far behind with 321 percent growth.

The article also included U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking for growth of applications during the same period, showing that Liberty is far outgrowing Princeton University (No. 1 at 65 percent), Harvard University (No. 2, 67 percent), and Yale University, (No. 3. 87 percent).

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=139564