Access and Affordability

[johnwesley]

<p>Well, it’s official. The announcement we’ve ben expecting appeared on President Roth’s website this morning. The salient information includes the following:</p>

<p>1) Thus far this year we’ve accepted fewer than 20% of the students who applied for admissiion. </p>

<p>2) Our total student charges will increase by 4.5% next year, reaching $58,000, which provides about 74% of the revenue it takes to run Wesleyan. </p>

<p>3) We will be allocating about $50 million to scholarships in 2012-2013 - a 15% increase.</p>

<p>Regarding need-blind admissions, specifically, he made the following statement:

We remain committed to meeting the full financial need of the students we enroll, and to do so without increasing required student indebtedness. This may mean that we will have to consider the capacity of some students to pay, as we do now with transfer and international students. We will read all applications without regard for the ability to pay, and we will be need-blind for as many students as possible. Currently we project this to be about 90% of each class (depending on the level of need).

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<p><a href=“Sustainable Affordability – Roth on Wesleyan”>Sustainable Affordability – Roth on Wesleyan;