Overcrowding/Overenrollment Issues at top tier schools
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Anonymous
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Hearing disturbing things about overcrowding in dorms/not enough housing at UCLA (3 freshman in a double etc)
Hearing about scheduling/class issues at Michigan, with kids not getting into required 1st year classes for majors etc. What other schools have these types of issues? What’s the best way to find out? |
Anonymous
| every single school |
Anonymous
| Much more common at public colleges. |
Anonymous
Umm not true. I'd look at smaller private schools and private schools that are focused on dorm renovations... |
Anonymous
| Experienced this in the 80's. More acceptances than yield projections calc. With the FAFSA situation, I wonder if schools over-accepted for the fall knowing the uncertainty of aid decisions. |
Anonymous
Colleges know that kids drop out during the first semester and they purposefully over fill the dorms because they know that eventually it will be closer to actual capacity. They don't always get it right and every year, you hear of a few schools renting out hotels to cover the overflow. “The Middle” had a story arc about it when Sue went to college. |
Anonymous
This. Not as much of an issue at elite privates where yields are carefully managed. |
Anonymous
DC has high school friends at UCB, UCLA, Michigan. All three have issues with this but the UCs are a much larger and persistent problem. To be fair VT has significant issues as well, just not the same level as the flagship UCs. |
Anonymous
No. Maybe every single large public has this issue? William and Mary does not have the issue. The more than a dozen we know at T25 privates do not have that issue. |
Anonymous
Middlebury’s FEMA trailers for housing a few years ago…. |
Anonymous
| This is a public school problem. |
Anonymous
It can happen at any school in a particular year if they estimate their yield incorrectly. There's a careful balance between filling a class to cover the budget and not being oversubscribed. |
Anonymous
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Lots of stories about the forced triple at OOS flagships.
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Anonymous
| I'd be pissed if I'm full pay OOS and my kid is in this predicament. |
Anonymous
No. If looking at the top tier colleges, it's only a problem at the publics - Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan. Which is another reason why the USNews rankings became so bogus last year. The UCs are plagued by this problem and have no business being so highly ranked for undergrad. There's classes with 1200 students. And graduating in four years is a real challenge for a lot of students. |