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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 OOS, full-pay families.   [b]The colleges in the T50 are all getting more applications[/b].  Even the other New England flagships aren't suffering as much as UVM.  Applications are up at UMass and UConn.   The UVM president is a hoot with her excuses.[/quote]

Not true.  [b]Occidental, which is ranked 35th on USNWR[/b], has exactly the same enrollment problem.  As with UVM, it had a catastrophic 15% ($6M) reduction in enrollment last year, which, for some reason, couldn't even be filled by wait-list students.  Oxy reacted by cutting all faculty perks, stopping all hiring for vacant positions, and bringing in an enrollment specialist in admissions.  That person decided that the best way to attack its dismal admissions numbers was to offer the "Occidental Commitment" scholarship, which is simply a bribe to ED students to commit to Oxy, and they get a $15,000 "scholarship" off the $95,365 a year.

Oxy's problems are compounded by a 2024 settlement with DOJ, ED, and the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law for failure to protect the civil rights of Jewish students. Since October 8th, no less than 15 Jewish students have felt scared enough that they have transferred, the most recent being an Israeli student on full scholarship.  She transferred to USC. As with Harvard and columbia, Jewish parents are concerned and will pick the campus that will provide a healthy environment for their children. Google Occidental or Oxy and MVP and SJP.

FWIW, Oxy's selectivity is only 45%, and its yield is an astonishingly low 4% according to Collegevine.  Only 15% of alums give to the school. 
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LOL. [b]When people say Top 50 it doesn’t mean the USNWR list of liberal arts schools, it means national universities.[/b] [/quote]
Neither represent general top-50 lists, even by U.S. News standards.
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