Class of 2014 applications up 9 percent from last year

Applications for freshman admission at the University of Richmond are up 9 percent from last year.

Richmond has received 8,566 applications for freshman admission for the class of 2014, a record-breaker, said Nanci Tessier, vice president for enrollment management.

Richmond has not yet decided the number of students to be admitted, Tessier wrote in an e-mail, but the targeted size of the freshman class has been set at 805.

Tessier said looking at data from the past three years would help project the number of students who would accept Richmond's offer of admission.

For the class of 2013, the university also targeted for a class size of 805 students. But, 924 students enrolled, 182 more members than the class of 2012.

"While that was unexpected," Tessier wrote, "it was wonderful to see so many students choose the University of Richmond."

Admissions officers have not yet decided the number of students to be admitted. Admission decisions will be mailed at the end of March, Tessier wrote.

Contact staff writer Anna Kuta at anna.kuta@richmond.edu.