This brought a smile to my face. Thanks for sharing ETB

The AdMins in Admissions use sophisticated modeling to determine likely applicants, acceptances and the yield for any particular year.  It would be interesting to learn if the Ohio AdMins have seen an increase in apps over what they were projecting for this year. Approaching 5.9 million Youtube hits on just a single 110 video and  where numerous comments have appeared to be from HS students would give some anecdotal evidence that numbers may be up.  (some of the student comments might be from 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders who are still at least a year off from applying.)

So much talk about budgets.  It would be fantastic if the recent publicity of the Party Rock video led to an increase in out-of-state applicants.  A boost in that category brings that huge windfall for revenues.  So whether a kid wants to tryout for the 110 or simply will end their  band career after HS graduation and wants to go to college where the other kids think band is cool too.  High Schoolers may pick schools for what appears to be strange reasons and they might not disclose to anyone immediately for their reasoning.  I met a very successful Boston area born and raised businessman who in chitchat I found he had attended Ohio Wesleyan.  I asked him how he came to go there.  He said his counselor told him he wasn't cut out for the Ivy's or upper crust NE liberal arts schools.  The counselor told him that Ohio had some really good ones that might give him the opportunity to get away and still get a great education.  The counselor gave him three names where to start his research; OW, ONU and Denison University.  In the end, story narrator said he never considered any other than the this three and after looking over all the bulletins and never setting foot on any of the three campuses, simply based his choice on which school had the highest women to men ratio!

Hope that is true 69.  A little searching and find Ohio has about 9% out-of-state where our friends in Oxford have closer to 35%.  Would be nice to boost it here in Athens to get the double tuition rates and take a little pressure off the budget.  

I'd heard things were up from somebody connected, but no detail as far as raw figures/

More confirmation:
 
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/20/ohio-u--is-growing-in-popularity.html

I believe the Dispatch reporter is a graduate of Ohio University.

Off the 110 topic for a moment.  In the mid 70's enrollment had come down to the 13,000 area and now the city has about 11,000 more undergrads and the top party school rating.  Yet, do these students today mostly party in private?  Consider just at the south end of Court Street and along Union Avenue in 1975.  Take the current Jackie O's/Graduate and the Union, Skippers/Town House and add BW's and that is what you currently have.  Minus BW's add the Deck (in Bromley or the College Inn) The Long  Branch Saloon, The Lantern and Swankey's on S. Court and the Frontier Room in old Baker and the old up town scene runs circles around today's (especially the south end) with many less potential customers (two cinemas too).  Of course 3.2 may have had lots to do with that picture.

Timely info on applications and admissions.  Despite the gloom and doom from some on this board that both sets of data have seen dramatic declines in recent years, alas, no:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/20/ohio-u--is-growing-in-popularity.html

So the intellectuals claim that the 110 and  recent athletic successes have nothing to do with this and continue to push for the eradication of said programs.