@privatebanker: DePauw is seeing a major decrease in enrollment:
https://www.thedepauw.com/early-numbers-show-significantly-smaller-class-of-2023/
20% drop in the size of the incoming class.
They may not be seeking more students possibly because there’s no way to make up that shortfall and with such a substantial decrease, they’ll close one of the dorms.
Ahh. Makes sense. Too bad what a nice school. With a great history.
Penn State’s financial aid offer was to branch campus in the amount of $24k over four years. If you were admitted under 2+2 they would clawback the last two years if you transferred to UP. I think the 100k number of applications was system-wide and not UP alone. They were pushing high stat kids to the branch campuses.
Adds for 5/13/2019:
University of La Verne CA
Saint Joseph’s College ME
Salem College NC
University of North Carolina Asheville NC
Peru State College NE
UNLV NV
Alfred University NY
John Carroll University OH
Wittenberg University OH
Lewis & Clark College OR
New England Institute of Technology RI
Concordia University Texas TX
Wow, @allyphoe. The list is now up to 490, with 474 of those having spots for fall freshmen!!
There were adds through the end of June last year.
Further development with DePauw - https://www.thedepauw.com/president-mccoy-announces-resignation-depauw-to-undergo-search-for-next-president/
@allyphoe - The ongoing movement (people taking spots form other waitlists, some not graduating, some taking a last minute gap year, some being unable to pay the deposit or tuition) is known as “summer melt”.
DePauw financials are really strong. I was just looking at them. They do have losses from operations but their endowment has helped to closed that loss. Hopefully they can pull out of this slump and get back on track.
Changes for 5/14/2019:
Adds:
Clarion University of Pennsylvania PA
Deletes:
Syracuse University
Interesting, I don’t see Old Dominion University on the list but as of yesterday my S19 was still getting emails from them saying he could still apply for Fall '19.
Is it possible Old Dominion does not belong to NACAC? The list will contain only college that are members of NACAC.
Syracuse being on the list is crazy to me. For whatever rankings are worth, the #53 ranked Uni being on the list, even for just two weeks, is very strange.
@jym626 I just looked them up and ODU is listed in the directory on the NACAC page. Not sure why they are not on the list.
Agreed, @racereer . It would have been unusual for ODU to not belong to NACAC.
@sushiritto I don’t understand what USNWR ranking would have to do with being on the list. Are you assuming that students always choose to enroll in schools according to their rank?
Always? No. I don’t use absolutes. Sometimes, yes. There are a lot of prestige chasers out there.
I didn’t see any colleges from the Top 50 USNWR on the NACAC list. So, I assume a higher ranking in the USNWR is generally associated with being a higher quality institution. So, as I said, I’m surprised that a Penn State or a Syracuse, both high-quality schools, are on the NACAC list. I am not surprised by most of the names on the NACAC list.
@sushiritto Penn State has 20 campuses and admissions is centralized. UP is almost full if not full with waitlist being Italians in January. Maybe Penn State needs to cut down some of its campuses and merge them with other state universities
Syracuse is on the list for Transfers only. Transfer openings are not surprising for any school.
@airway1, how much of their endowment is DePauw drawing?