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[quote=Anonymous]   While I wouldn't doubt the above posters knowledge of the specific instances referenced, I would note that an increase in class size generally is not necessarily an indicator of overenrollment.  In some instances, privates will bump a given class size up by a student (or actually bump a number of classes in a school up by a student) when enrollment is softer.  This is because in some instances if you look at a school from a macro school-wide level it may be in the past there was an additional section of a class /grade, somewhere that has been eliminated due to softer enrollment overall.   In order to mitigate those effects, the schools will sometimes allow a bump up here or there in a given class where in the past they could turn that student down and hold the line because a school overall had stornger enrollment.   On the other hand, squeezing an extra student in when enrollment is steady  also is anowther way schools can deal with increasing costing pressures without necessarily raising tuition by quite as much as they otherwise would to cover costs.  Again,  Iam not suggesting this is the case with any school noted above in particular, but it is another reason why these sort of threads don't get a of traction.  Even if people were wiling to freely discuss enrollment at given schools, unless you have data from the front office individual instances really just aren't that informative.   [/quote]

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