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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article also mentioned Bucknell didn't meet their enrollment target.[/quote]

That surprised me. It seems like a competitive school at least to me. Oberlin is surprising as well. It is a known school. I hate saying this, but I wonder if the social justice outrage of several years ago turned people off to certain schools. I think people are willing to bite the bullet for schools like Harvard and Yale, but not for Oberlin?[/quote]

And yet Bucknell is not at all that kind of place. This is a yield miscalculation, nothing more. [/quote]

No it’s d-bag school in the middle of nowhere that has hard time luring bros from the state school experience.  Different vibe, same issue.[/quote]

Wow, your kid was rejected from Bucknell?  Sorry about that.[/quote]

[b]No one was rejected form Bucknell.  [/b]That's the point.  They couldn't even fill their freshman class.  [/quote]
70% of applicants were rejected from Bucknell. They just miscalculated yield. You sound unbelievably dumb.[/quote]

And what's the solution going to be next year?  Lower standards.  It wasn't a fluke there were problems all round: [url]https://www.inquirer.com/education/college-enrollment-student-bucknell-muhlenberg-ursinus-dickinson-20190930.html[/url]
[quote]At Bucknell University last spring, prospective admissions were tracking similar to last year through most of April.

Then, a few days shy of the May 1 deadline for students to accept an admission offer and pay a deposit, "the spigot just turned off,” said Bucknell president John C. Bravman.

The university found itself short of its freshman enrollment target and turned to the prospective students it had put on a waiting list. Instead of admitting 35 students off that list, as it usually does, the selective liberal arts university in central Pennsylvania took about 100. And it still started the fall a dozen students below its target...

Bucknell suspects it lost students to cheaper public universities. Last year, four of the top six schools where Bucknell overlapped in enrollment offers were public.[/quote]
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Wow! I can see that. I have always thought of Bucknell as a good school not quite like Middlebury, but a solid Mid-Atlantic private university. Are there other schools like Bucknell that are having these issues? I am thinking Lehigh or Lafayette?[/quote]

Bucknell was a popular solid option for a mid Atlantic LAC, not Middlebury or Bowdoin level but a step up from Franklin & Marshall and Dickinson. So the school as attracted mostly students from UMC families who could pay full freight.

But the UMC are now increasingly resistant to paying full freight for the obvious reasons, tuition has soared far beyond inflation for the last 25 years. It's really hitting the point where enough donut hole or even full freight families are saying no. The cohort of full freight who will find Bucknell worth the money is shrinking. And this is probably just the beginning of the wave. If they don't do something in the next few years, namely control tuition and even get it down, I see more schools struggling. [/quote]

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