With respect to the impact on Wesleyan applications and decisions, if you were a student or more likely a parent, who exactly one month today (March 27th 2015) were to be told whether your son or daughter has been admitted to Wesleyan and just 30 days prior you had read and worried about this latest incident, don’t you think you would be somewhat more worried and concerned about attending Wesleyan University than you had before and when you applied in December, I know I would.
This time last year ds had applied and was accepted April 1, at Wesfest were faced the reality of attending Wesleyan, my point is that as a parent you worry and this certainly doesn’t help, as intparent suggested this will play havoc with determining yield and thus determining how many students to offer acceptance to.
Yield would likely drop (fewer accepting offers) but the University will likely offer acceptance to more students in order to fill places, I suspect some 2450+ students will be offered acceptance for 745 places, thus yield will drop to close to 30%, most students these days apply to 8-10 schools, do you think they will accept Wesleyans offer at the same rate they did in years past, I think not. This will lead to lower selectivity (acceptance LY @23.7%, will likely drop to 25%+) and thus lower rankings in USNWR and others, it compounds the deteriorating regard with which the school was held and I take no glee in suggesting such, its just what happens