University receives 10,000th application

TCU Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr. and Dean of Admission Ray Brown with 10,000th application

Fort Worth, TX

1/19/2007

TCU’s Dean of Admissions Ray Brown has announced that the university received its 10,000th application for fall 2007 admission, the largest number of applications the university has ever received. The 10,000th application arrived last week. Since then, the university has received even more applications.
“Last year, we had a total of 8,677 applications and that was a record number,” said Brown. “We’re likely to break 11,000 applications before this year’s deadline.”
The deadline to apply for the fall 2007 academic year is Feb. 15. Approximately 1,550 students will be accepted to TCU this fall.
The university has been a popular choice with students for the past 10 years with applications increasing each year.
Over the years, TCU has undergone programmatic and physical campus changes. As part of a strategic plan in 1999, the university re-organized its schools and colleges, began to talk about changing the core curriculum and added two new academic facilities,
Steve and Sarah Smith Entrepreneurs Hall and the William E. and Jean Jones Tucker Technology Center, a new campus recreation center (University Recreation Center), and a new baseball stadium -- the Charlie and Marie Lupton Baseball Stadium.
In 2005, the university implemented an updated core curriculum and launched a new strategic plan that has resulted in new programming and the construction of new facilities, including four new residence halls, a new university union, an indoor practice facility and a renovated and new facility for the School of Education.
The university also continues to add faculty to bring its student-to-faculty ratio down. Currently, the ratio is 13.9:1 student-to-faculty ratio. Over the past four years, TCU has hired 62 faculty members.
Editor’s note: TCU ten-year application trend follows.

Fall 2006:   8,677
Fall 2005:   8,155
Fall 2004:   8,061
Fall 2003:   7,654
Fall 2002:   6,137
Fall 2001:   5,822
Fall 2000:   5,055
Fall 1999:   5,028
Fall 1998:   4,829
Fall 1997:   4,694