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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They choose to keep their freshman classes small."

Yet when a college with a finite campus expands with satellite options (Northeastern), we lose our minds.

Some top schools could expand if they tossed up new dorms and made classes bigger, but the experience wouldn't be the same.

If more people expanded the idea of what "elite" was, they might include more of the big state universities that definitely have room for their kid.[/quote]

Yes, the experience would not/is not the same.  NEU is a good school, but most applying have no interest in attending NEU Oakland/Mills college for 4 years.  Most have much better options for them and take it.  And NEU just grows without putting infrastructure in place. 
Harvard would not be Harvard if they had 10K undergrads and they do not need to become that.  
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Wut? They have 7,240 undergrads, and you're saying 3k more would destroy their brand? That's asinine.

I think they could do that without sinking to the lowly status of Penn (9700 undergrads) or Cornell (15k undergrads) that's how confident I am in Harvard.[/quote]

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