<p>Just for comparison, the undergraduate headcount at Chicago (~5,500) is about the same or slightly larger than that of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Tufts, and MIT. So size isn’t the issue.</p>
<p>There was a point at which the college was down to around 2,000, but that was 40 years ago. It was around 3,500 20 years ago, and increased to its current size from 4,000 over the period 2004-2009.</p>