Numbers Continue to Climb

Fall 2007 applications rose to a record 27,754, an 8 percent increase over the prior year.
Fall 2007 freshmen had the highest average SAT scores in the history of the University.
Graduate student enrollment for Fall 2007 at 5,288 was the largest since 1980.
Total Fall 2007 international undergraduate and graduate student applications at 2,168, increased by 8 percent over last year.
Fall 2007 international undergraduate and graduate student enrollment reached 1,055, the largest number in St. John’s history — major geographic areas include: India, China, Trinidad and Tobago, South Korea and Bulgaria.
The Office of Financial Aid processed more than $337 million in financial assistance for almost 95 percent of the student body in the form of scholarships, loans, grants and work-study programs — an increase of 6.9 percent over last year.
The number of students providing service of all kinds exceeded 9,000 including a record number of students participating in the University’s Sixth Annual Service Day; students performed 129,349 hours of service last year.