<p>Answers to Annoying Questions from Otis:</p>
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<p>Dear Honorable “UR Admissions”,</p>
<p>Any public stats you can release regarding the annoying questions I posed in post #1 in this thread?</p>
<p>Q: How is ED2 shaping up? (numbers & quality)
A: We’re up in ED2 but haven’t done anything to assess quality yet. </p>
<p>Q:How is Regular Admissions shaping up? (numbers & quality)
A: It will be close because we’re looking at lots of different indicators right now, but we might very well equal last year’s numbers in the pool and might exceed them by a little bit. This is great news for us. Too soon to say on quality. Lots of apps are entered but their stats/credentials are still incomplete. </p>
<p>Q: Has the recession/ depression had any impact on college admission in general and on UR’s applications in particular?
A: I think that the economy has infused even more uncertainty into the system as a whole because families just don’t know how it is all going to shake out this spring so that could be driving apps up. Certainly we hear anecdotally that public institutions are way up in apps so I’m sure that is scaring a lot of people who used to feel pretty sure they could be admitted to their in-state publics and they are looking for back-ups. I hate to say that a bad economy is good for UR, because it is so bad for everyone. But we’re fortunate not to be cutting budgets (we’re watching our pennies and trying to be particularly frugal, but there aren’t hiring freezes, cut backs in programs etc) so the quality of our product is not at risk so far as we can tell right now. We have four major construction projects going on and since the cost of construction has dropped, it is actually working out to our benefit to be building in a down economy. Our board is meeting this week and we expect the smallest tuition increase in memory (good for them!) and nothing but affirmation of our commitments to need and merit based aid programs. </p>
<p>Thanks. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks, Otis. It is an incredibly busy time and we’re trying to keep up with everything that is coming our direction. I hope this gets at what you wanted to know. UR Admissions</p>
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