Overenrolled Colleges

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like a ton of colleges overenrolled for the class of 2026. What is the situation at your kid's school?

“Seems like a ton of colleges…”

Like which ones exactly? Name at least five schools.

Va Tech
Co School of Mines
Purdue
Penn State
Univ Central Florida

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Tennessee State
Univ Utah
UNC Charlotte
Univ Cincinnati
Duke

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Syracuse - they lowered the admission rate and still ended up with 200 more freshmen than anticipated. To accommodate, they are kicking sophomores out of dorms.

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Pitt is renting some floors from a dorm at Carlow down the street. Applications skyrocketed and more people apparently decided to attend. My dd lives off campus so I’m not too keyed into the dorm situation. But the information about Carlow was published.

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South Carolina is renting out a hotel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like a ton of colleges overenrolled for the class of 2026. What is the situation at your kid's school?

“Seems like a ton of colleges…”

Like which ones exactly? Name at least five schools.

Or what?

Your tone is beyond obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Williams is extremely overenrolled. Current students with secured housing are getting kicked out to assure freshman communities. They're working to turn doubles into triples and singles into doubles to fit everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like a ton of colleges overenrolled for the class of 2026. What is the situation at your kid's school?

“Seems like a ton of colleges…”

Like which ones exactly? Name at least five schools.

Or what?

Your tone is beyond obnoxious.

And they were wrong anyway lol

[Anonymous]

So what is causing the over-enrollment at these schools? Presumably, the school chooses X+Y number of applicants, with the understanding that only X will enroll. Why do we think that the Y is enrolling there too? Most of the schools listed are good schools so it's unreasonable to think that the Y didn't get in anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:Williams is extremely overenrolled. Current students with secured housing are getting kicked out to assure freshman communities. They're working to turn doubles into triples and singles into doubles to fit everyone.

Kicking upperclassmen who thought they had housing out?

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Anonymous wrote:So what is causing the over-enrollment at these schools? Presumably, the school chooses X+Y number of applicants, with the understanding that only X will enroll. Why do we think that the Y is enrolling there too? Most of the schools listed are good schools so it's unreasonable to think that the Y didn't get in anywhere else.

Determining Yield is a challenge in normal years. With Covid and Test optional, the number of applicants at most T50 schools has greatly increased. This means admission rates are much lower. Makes it much more challenging to guess how many will attend, and no school wants to under enroll.

Last year Northeastern assumed their normal yield (25%), but got over 35%. That has created problems for the next 4 years due to that over enrollment. Also means they attempted to have a much smaller class of 2026, but who knows if they achieved that or not

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So this is obviously leading to under-enrollment at other colleges….curious as to which ones are in that boat.

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As I suspected, admissions won't be any easier than class of 2023 than the past few years, because schools will respond by accepting even fewer students.

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Even with normal numbers, if fewer students study abroad, there can be dorm room shortages. Some programs still haven’t restarted, especially in Asia.

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Anonymous wrote:As I suspected, admissions won't be any easier than class of 2023 than the past few years, because schools will respond by accepting even fewer students.

That's what happened to Northeastern.
It's acceptance rate is usually around 18%, but it went down to 6.7% this year.
It'll probably settle at around 12-14% I think on par with some of the better T30 schools.