Surge Of Applications Hits New Orleans IHEs

Colleges here are reporting a surge in applicants, buoyed, officials say, by high school students who helped with the hurricane recovery effort and want to return for classes.Compared to this time last year, applications are up by 24 percent at Loyola University, 28 percent at Xavier University, 43 percent at Our Lady of Holy Cross College, 85 percent at the University of New Orleans and nearly 100 percent at Tulane University, which has stopped accepting more. Read more at:
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