Bantams do it!
Trinity - 64
NYU - 60
Go 'CAC!!!
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Several of the NESCACs also released numbers from this year:
Tufts More Than 33,000 Apply to the Undergraduate Class of 2029 | Tufts Now
Williams College admits 8.5 percent of applicants to Class of 2029 â The Williams Record
Bowdoin Class of 2029 application numbers reach record high â The Bowdoin Orient
Amherst Amherst Admits Record Percentage of First-Generation Students in Class of 2029 | March | Amherst College
Will check to see if others have shared publicly. I may have missed some.
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Yeah, Iâm afraid that NESCAC is at risk of being a target for all sorts of First Amendment, immigration status and bogus score settling for the next few years.
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Likely, though she previously studied at Columbia, âOzturk earned her masterâs degree from the Teachers College at Columbia University.â
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I donât think so. I think liberal arts colleges will stay out of the fray for the most part. Their funding is also less jeopardized, so they will be a good choices for current high schoolers.
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I agree. I was just at a presentation from several LAC AOs and they said exactly that. Not as high a proportion of their research dollars come from the government, so they wonât have to cutback on research opportunities for their students. That does seem like an advantage for LACs, at least for the time being.
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A bigger issue is the potential endowment tax
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The proposed tax applies to colleges with at least 500 students and more than $500,000 in endowment per student. So some LACs with large endowments would be taxed at this higher rate, but most donât come close to that.
Pretty sure that would include six of the eleven NESCACs.
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Colleges impacted (within and outside the NESCAC) include:
Swarthmore
Amherst
Williams
Pomona
Grinnell
Bowdoin
W&L
Wellesley
U of Richmond
CMC
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Davidson
Hamilton
Carleton
Just missing the $500K/student mark (and formerly above it):
Vassar
Colby
Reed
Middlebury
Whitman
I think youâre being way too hard on Middlebury. I get
$1,600,000,000/2800= 571,428.00
Likewise, Wesleyan. I get
$1,550,000,000/3000= 516,666.00
Colby too:
$1,160,000,000/2262= 512,820
EDIT: Dâoh! Maybe we should be posting this in a secure SCIF! 
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Here are the NACUBO figures, generally accepted as authoritative: https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-REVISED-Feb-19.xlsx
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Oh, how interesting! It really makes a difference how you nail down the enrollment figures. A few hundred students here or there and Middlebury is either above or below the cutoff. Same for Harvey Mudd.
I stand corrected on the endowments per capita. Iâm sticking by my notion that these smaller colleges will mostly be âless affectedâ by the absolute nonsense coming out of the WhiteHouse. I hope I am right.
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It would be interesting to understand how they calculate FTE. Midd doesnât have close to 3250 undergrads.
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Hamilton and Wesleyan are in the spotlight this week with former president (and Hon. Wes `08er) Barack Obama held court in Clinton, NY:
While Wesleyan prez, Michael S. Roth takes his views on The Current Situation to The New Yorker:
A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice | The New Yorker
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Obamaâs Q&A at Hamilton was fantastic!
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