Application volume comparison for elites

Ok, same as the other post, but this time for the elites.

Class of '09
1. Dartmouth 127
1. Berkeley 127
3. Duke 121
4. Michigan 117
5. Virginia 105
6. Cornell 89
7. Yale 82
8. UCLA 80
9. NYU 72

Class of '08
1. Berkeley 198
2. Duke 176
3. Dartmouth 174
4. Michigan 153
5. NYU 150
6. Yale 144
7. UCLA 125
8. Cornell 105
9. Virginia 85

My first thought is that there might not be enough data to draw any conclusions, but what the hell. There really seems to be a tremendous amount of consistency year over year in terms of how schools compare to one another. It seems the only big changes are that Cornell and Virginia have really experienced comparative increases in volume. This might be due to different deadlines, or perhaps more people are adding them as back-ups because they have been easier to get into recently.

Volume seems to be more or less a dead heat between Berkeley, Dartmouth, Duke & Michigan, but Berkeley and Dartmouth have much smaller class sizes.