And they are expecting this to help with their yield?
If yield goes up, with over 2k more acceptances, they will enroll way more students than ever before and likely run close to housing problems.
A real reporter would have dug for more details here. This reads more like a PR piece from the school.
Clearly they are bracing for even lower yield, accepting that many more students (or there is some big enrollment expansion planned that no one was discussing before).
Hmmm, lower yield after canceling EA and forcing kids to add schools to their lists; I wonder who would have ever predicted that?