<p>The gendered nature of Notre Dame’s housing (and its commitment to all freshmen living on-campus) might alter how many men versus women Notre Dame can admit. By my calculations, there are ~3500 on-campus beds for men, and ~3000 for women, using the maximum capacities from this site: <a href=“http://orlh.nd.edu/halls/index.html;[/url]”>http://orlh.nd.edu/halls/index.html;</a> however, those numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story, since men and women may move off-campus at different rates. (I’m inclined to conjecture that men are more likely to move off-campus, but I have no actual data to back this up.)</p>
<p>On the whole, while it would probably be ideal for Notre Dame to have more equal numbers of male and female beds, I have to wonder how significant the 500 bed difference actually is. That really comes out to about 125 beds per admitted class; for perspective, the admitted pool is 4000 students…</p>