An increasing number of college graduates applied for jobs in New York City and Washington, D.C., despite their high unemployment rates.

The campus recruitment app Handshake’s survey results found that 9.1% of its users applied for jobs in New York, which was the largest increase in applications from last year at 1.35 percentage points. Second were applicants pining for Washington at 3%, which was an increase of over 0.5 percentage points from last year.

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