At a November 14, 2012 Counselor Breakfast Territory Manager, Terry Gilbert, announced that Purdue University plans to join the Common Application for the Fall of 2013. In doing so, they are following a similar school, The Ohio State University, which is using the Common Application for the first time in the current Admissions cycle. This decision will most probably increase Purdue’s application numbers which this past year were 30,903 for the Fall of 2012, yielding 6,291 enrolled students in their Freshman class.