<p>As I understand it, the plan is to increase current enrollment by 180 students by the year 2012. Don’t know for sure, but most likely this means that future classes will be about 10% larger than previous norm. This would mean an extra 45 students or so in future classes, relative to the previous norm. In this case, the goal of ~ 180 additional students would be reached in Fall 2012, after four “enlarged” classes had been enrolled.</p>
<p>Other northeastern LACs have also announced plans to gradually increase enrollment, but Amherst’s may be the largest. For comparison, Wesleyan plans to increase enrollment by 120, Bowdoin by 50.</p>