Jan Admission at Hamilton

[ucbalumnus]

@movingtothebeach

If you have (say) 10 SLACs opening up (say) 50 slots for January admits, you’ve created 500 new admits every year - essentially you’ve created a new SLAC’s worth of admitted students using capacity you already have (because so many more students go abroad in the spring).

Excess capacity in the spring occurs even without study abroad. When everyone starts in the fall, students who graduate one semester late or early (9 or 7 semesters) typically have one more fall than spring semester). So fall has a higher enrollment than spring.