This has been happening at Purdue for years. This is not a new problem. You would think that a quantitative school such as this would be able to get their modeling correct. This is one of the many reasons that my DD didn’t choose Purdue.
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Besides the housing issues, could there be academic issues due to the oversize frosh class?
- Planned instructional capacity may not be sufficient in popular majors or their prerequisites for the oversize frosh class. I.e. they may have planned for X frosh in calculus 1, but now they have Y > X frosh who need calculus 1 to graduate on time in their intended major.
- Secondary admission to capacity-limited majors may have higher admission thresholds or be more competitive for those in the oversize frosh class.
I agree with this - although I’m not sure this year specifically is tied to past years.
One of my son’s concerns was they were putting people off campus miles away and he didn’t like that. He didn’t have that issue himself at his school.
But it turns out, his school too - was renting apartment complexes (in later years) - albeit very close. So it could happen to any number of schools.
when I first saw the thread title, I thought how interesting - because there is a thread on school closings - and we’ve seen that and then schools like American under estimate their yield.
So it does seem to be a crazy year - but maybe those that are affordable relative to others (like Purdue) are seeing this increase vs. others.
Oh yes. They do not care…
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