Small schools want to grow

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<p>Within limits. Economies of scale hold true.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/24/libarts[/url]”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/24/libarts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It’s interesting, because these students have to come from somewhere. They’ll be taken from the prospective student bodies of their peers, and skimmed off the top of intitutions just below them in selectivity. I don’t presume those schools are going to want to get smaller, so it will ripple down.</p>

<p>Of course, if we’re on the edge of another big bubble of college-going students that’s all moot.</p>

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<p>Interesting. When we visited Middlebury in '03, the president said that their goal was to grow to 3000 within a few years.</p>