@ljberkow : Emory theoretically has the money to support all students, and if ECAS. Nursing, Oxford, and GBS do not, then they should be raising funds/resources to do so. Again, my guess is that is what they are trying to improve with EmoryUP, the tenets and progress of which current UGs can read if they wanna know about it.
Housing: I suspect they were able to just apply last year’s solution from the get-go (thus, it is just a norm. No need for attention from the Wheel for example). There was no scrambling involved this time to figure out where “overflow” students would go. I guarantee you that the traditionally allocated frosh dorms could not suddenly accommodate that class size unless they did something like selected less RA/SAs which I doubt happened.