Syracuse University has just announced that it has received a record number of applications for the class of 2012. The maximum amount of students that Syracuse can hold is roughly 13,150 students (or about 3,250 per class). It’s reported that S.U. has received a whopping 22,000 applications. That’s nearly double the entire student body! 18,000 students have been waitlisted or rejected. Sorry guys. 

It’s clear that the desirability to get into S.U. is incrementally rising, yet the ranking of ‘Cuse seems to remain fixed (it’s been around the 50^th spot – determined by U.S. News – for the last five years), so what gives? Syracuse has built at least five new big buildings in the past few years, and plans to do even more major construction; they’ve got incredibly strong business, architecture, and communications divisions; they’re building one of the biggest malls in the world right down the road; the lacrosse team just won the NCAA championship; the B-Ball team's legit; and they have hot girls. 

Seriously what do these other schools have that S.U. doesn’t? …Okay, our football team's miserable, but hey everyone’s got their Achilles heel.