While the policy is not scheduled to begin until 1998 and does not affect the current batch of freshman applicants, university officials fear that the regents' decision is affecting how prospective students view the school.

Out of approximately 1,000 freshman applicants, 95 students are admitted.

Portfolios are not accepted from freshman applicants.

Queens University of Charlotte accepts 76% of freshman applicants and 73% of transfer applicants, according to College Board.

A freshman applicant is required to have completed the following high school courses with satisfactory grades:

In Fall 2012, out of the 7,122 freshman applicants, only 1,403 were admitted to the undergraduate program.

Out of 13,401 applicants for last fall's term, 59.2 percent were accepted, the first time that fewer than 60 percent of freshman applicants were accepted.

Ten years ago, there were typically 9,000 to 10,000 annual freshman applicants for the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus.

It has been the American university with the most freshman applicants since 1998, and received over 100,000 freshman applications for Fall 2013.

For the Fall of 2013, admitted freshman applicants had an average grade-point average (GPA) of 4.3, a 1967 SAT score, and a 30 ACT score.