Princeton increased its class size from 1,000 to 1,300 11 years ago, when it opened Whitman College. (That’s about the same time Chicago increased its class size from 1,000 to 1,250 - oops! - 1,350 - oops! - 1,550. And I think Princeton is a much more diverse place than it was in the 70s, 80s, or 90s.
@Cue7 : 50% of student housing from 2000 no longer stands? What the heck is the 50% that is supposedly still standing? As of this fall, I think the only undergraduate dorms that were in use as undergraduate dorms in 2000 will be Snell-Hitchcock and Burton-Judson. That’s about 500 beds – about the size of the Shoreland alone, not to mention Pierce, Broadview, Blackstone, Maclean, Woodward Court, Max Mason , , ,