<p>The problem is, you can’t continue the fashionable “Noah’s Ark” approach to admissions (two of these … and two of those), maintain gender balance, take care of the legacies, go after the “economically disadvantaged” etc and still field a football team, without expanding.</p>
<p>Princeton wants more “greenhaired people” in addition to lax players and “eating club” types, and has concluded that expansion is the only way to make it work.</p>
<p>Harvard, apparently, wants to be the school of choice for the world, not just the nation, and thus contemplates a 10% expansion to include more internationals.</p>
<p>Yale is straining to keep up, although it announced the usual “50 states and 50 foreign countries”, 50-50 male/female split etc, though I notice the “diversity” numbers were down a hair, and the fraction receiving financial aid declined.</p>
<p>Bottom line: these schools can’s satisfy existing constituencies <em>and</em> become more “diverse” without expanding.</p>