Yale Considers Adding 200 Students (400+ more admits!), Going For Harvard

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<p><a href=“http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=1020076[/url]”>http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=1020076&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Omg .</p>

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<p>This isn’t something likely to happen in the immediate future. Yale is considering building two more residential colleges, but it probably won’t start building those at least until it finishes renovating the current colleges (another few years) and it won’t expand the class size until the new colleges are in place (since otherwise there won’t be enough housing). Probably no student currently on CC is likely to be directly affected by any change.</p>

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<p>I’m glad sval posted that. This isn’t really a fresh news item. The 200 extra admitees will occur when the University BUILDS two more residential colleges – which isn’t going to occur overnight. The alumni magazine has an informal contest where alums are submitting names of people for whom the new colleges might be named.</p>

<p>It might help my KIDS’ chances (oldest is going into 5th grade) but it’s not that personally relevant for any CC member like sval said – unless they’re in 6th grade or something! Oh heaven help us if that’s the case!!!</p>

<p>EDIT: I just read that Boston Herald article. The timeline that I discussed is totally absent. What a poor job of reporting context! It totally skews the actual importance of the Yale expansion plans. And it’s not as if Harvard doesn’t have committees in place to look to expanding its undergrad population too. What a POOR ARTICLE!</p>

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<p>wow .</p>

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<p>I wonder why they’re considering doing that when the # of high school students will start declining around 2011. Seems now is the time for colleges to begin preparing for that eventuality, not making expansion plans.</p>

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<p>Actually that is incorrect - the ‘boom’ will have died off, but due to increases related to normal population growth and immigration(plus higher grad %'s) classes are expected to at least maintain.</p>

<p>Also, there is less supply than demand right now(as is demonstrated by a 10% admit rate among a qualified pool), so they could add spots without any problem.</p>

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<p>OMG!!!</p>

<p>I pray that will happen =D</p>

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<p>Northstarmom: I was at a session w/Admissions Dean Brenzel and he explained the fact that it pains them to have to reject so many qualified applicants. Enrollment expansion seemed like a logical step to alleviate some of that. In Pres Levin’s quotes in the original Bloomberg article (which, BTW, does indicate that it’s a long-term proposal unlike this Boston Herald article which omits that relevant fact) are along the same lines too. Bottom line, they want to allow more to experience Yale – and not as a function of apps nos or student population nos.</p>

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<p>I’m in 9th grade, might it affect me?</p>

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<p>So they’re building 2 all new residential colleges? And changing the whole tradition? That’s news in itself.</p>

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<p>God damn, I envy the current 7th graders. The current mini-population with college-age students will end with them thus alleviating the applicant pool making it less competitive to apply to college, and now Yale is thinking of adding more students!</p>

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<p>interesting… though apparently this won’t really help those applying for class of 2012 eh?</p>