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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVM's President is delusional.  Talk about a lack of accountability.  She blames the plummeting enrollment numbers on the demographic cliff and losing out on international students because of visa concerns who enroll at presumably stronger colleges in the US.

In a normal year guess how many freshman students UVM enrolls who are international?

About 45! (out of almost 2800 students)

When your acceptance rate is over 70%, your yield is 15% and you rely on 80% OOS students paying $70k a year you have a problem.

With plunging enrollment a tidy death spiral problem.
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The argument is that it’s trickle down from the high end schools not enrolling as many internationals. The t20 don’t enroll as many kids, so Americans who have them as a reach get in, then then the kids who would’ve gone to uvm go to the t20-50 per se.

And the demographic cliff is real. I think Maryland announced something similar last month.

I wouldn’t want to be an assistant administrator making $150k in some weird student services program right now. [/quote]

International undergraduate students are flat or up at most colleges for last year, even the more selective ones.  UVM's problem is that it relies on a bunch of families who are OOS and full pay.   The colleges in the T50 are all getting more applications.  Even the other New England flagships aren't suffering like UVM.  Applications are up at UMass and UConn.   The UVM president is a hoot with her excuses.[/quote]

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