Yale increasing undergraduate class size?

[Anonymous]

Saw this.

Why?

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02/04/yale-to-increase-undergraduate-class-size/

[Anonymous]

"10,000 more students in the next century."

The next century??

[Anonymous]

A 6% increase. Insignificant, if what people are wondering about is an increase in admission chances.

Yield can sway that much in either direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A 6% increase. Insignificant, if what people are wondering about is an increase in admission chances.

Yield can sway that much in either direction.

I guess the question is who are they targeting? Is it a certain type of student? Full pay or first generation? Who do they feel they are missing.

[Anonymous]

Extra revenue in wake of Federal funding cut. Most likely the offers fall on full pay domestic and international students' laps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Extra revenue in wake of Federal funding cut. Most likely the offers fall on full pay domestic and international students' laps.

Hmmmm

[Anonymous]

Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.

[Anonymous]

It will be interesting to see who else follows this path on a somewhat emergency basis this year.

If it’s a lot of schools that do this, it’s a direct consequence of the actions in Washington and would lead me to believe that these are all full pay admissions.

[Anonymous]

100 students spread out over the hundreds and hundreds of courses won't be an issue. And Yale discovered it could handle housing fluctuating class sizes with the covid era supersized classes (24 and 25). It has become a much more popular choice for upper classmen to move off campus which frees up space in the residential colleges. I see no downside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see who else follows this path on a somewhat emergency basis this year.

If it’s a lot of schools that do this, it’s a direct consequence of the actions in Washington and would lead me to believe that these are all full pay admissions.

An extra hundred full pay students at a place like yale is an extra $10 million a year. Nice but the annual budgets at these universities are in the billions so that doesn't seem to be the logical reason for this

[Anonymous]

Yale's recent enrolled stats, per CDS:

fall 2023, admitted 2332, enrolled 1641 (yield 70%)
fall 2022, admitted 2289, enrolled 1777 (yield 77%)
fall 2021, admitted 2509, enrolled 1786 (yield 71%)
fall 2020, admitted 2299, enrolled 1284 (yield 55%)
fall 2019, admitted 2241, enrolled 1550 (yield 69%)
fall 2018, admitted 2241, enrolled 1573 (yield 70%)
fall 2017, admitted 2285, enrolled 1579 (yield 69%)
fall 2016, admitted 1988, enrolled 1371 (yield 69%)
fall 2015, admitted 2034, enrolled 1364 (yield 67%)
fall 2014, admitted 1950, enrolled 1360 (yield 70%)
fall 2013, admitted 2031, enrolled 1359 (yield 67%)
fall 2012, admitted 2043, enrolled 1347 (yield 66%)
fall 2011, admitted 2109, enrolled 1351 (yield 64%)
fall 2010, admitted 2039, enrolled 1344 (yield 66%)

Apologies if there are typos - possible, as this was quick-and-dirty via calculator.

My point is that if they want to increase to 1650 enrolled, they're already there.

[Anonymous]

They're already at that point because of covid (admitted students who deferred, etc.). Now they'll be officially admitting those numbers from the start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale's recent enrolled stats, per CDS:

fall 2023, admitted 2332, enrolled 1641 (yield 70%)
fall 2022, admitted 2289, enrolled 1777 (yield 77%)
fall 2021, admitted 2509, enrolled 1786 (yield 71%)
fall 2020, admitted 2299, enrolled 1284 (yield 55%)
fall 2019, admitted 2241, enrolled 1550 (yield 69%)
fall 2018, admitted 2241, enrolled 1573 (yield 70%)
fall 2017, admitted 2285, enrolled 1579 (yield 69%)
fall 2016, admitted 1988, enrolled 1371 (yield 69%)
fall 2015, admitted 2034, enrolled 1364 (yield 67%)
fall 2014, admitted 1950, enrolled 1360 (yield 70%)
fall 2013, admitted 2031, enrolled 1359 (yield 67%)
fall 2012, admitted 2043, enrolled 1347 (yield 66%)
fall 2011, admitted 2109, enrolled 1351 (yield 64%)
fall 2010, admitted 2039, enrolled 1344 (yield 66%)

Apologies if there are typos - possible, as this was quick-and-dirty via calculator.

My point is that if they want to increase to 1650 enrolled, they're already there.

They're just exiting all of the kinks from the covid pandemic so I would not look at the last few years without understanding that they represent an out of character situation for Yale and a lot of other universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.

It's the timing of the announcement is interesting. Expansion is not news, but they don't normally break the news in the middle of the admission season, in between the REA and RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.

It's the timing of the announcement is interesting. Expansion is not news, but they don't normally break the news in the middle of the admission season, in between the REA and RD.

What do you think it could mean?