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No, they cannot easily "add more seats".  At most ivy's kids live on campus all 4 years.  Add 500 students per year and you have a huge housing issue.  Not to mention classes will be larger, less advising, classes more difficult to get into, etc... an entire list of issues if the infrastructure is not in place.  So it won't solve the problem (500 at each is still a dent and most will still get rejected) and doing so with out infratsturce would degrade the experience just look at non T25 schools who have done it recently (Northeastern is one example---grown 3-4K students in last few years without any infrastructure in place---many parents and students are not happy.  Many kids cannot land coops, because more students looking coupled with the bad economy is not a good thing, kids cannot get into classes because so many students and they are all registering for classes in case they don't get a coop---which many wont' so they wont be dropping out of the classes to make more space...it's not a good situation when you add students without an infrastructure plan put in place first). [/quote]

This +1000 and it is not just Ivies. why would any school invest in the infrastructure when the college age population starts declining pretty significantly beginning in birth year 2010 and onward.  They are going to EXPANDING admission rates to stay afloat. And then they will have to let in the riff raff. Gasp![/quote]

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