Last year the campus received 22,500 freshman applications.
In 2010, for the tenth consecutive year, Roanoke received a record number of freshman applications, over 4,400 for approximately 550 openings.
The University began to get more freshman applications than it could house due in large part to the football team's success.
Partly as a result, freshman applications grew from 12,642 in 2000 to an estimated 19,500 in 2004.
In September 2002, the college reported a 20 percent increase in its freshman applications, despite a 4 percent rise in tuition.
Vassar College in Poughkeepsie received 5,733 freshman applications, 43 more than last year.
Adelphi drew 3,092 freshman applications for this fall - the most since 1981 and up 22 percent from last year's 2,529 applications.
For the Fall 2011 academic year, the university received over 12,000 freshman applications.
For the fall of 2013, the university received a record 29,865 freshman applications.
It has been the American university with the most freshman applicants since 1998, and received over 100,000 freshman applications for Fall 2013.
