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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YCBK talked about the changes to colleges this year (todays episode):

China applications way down “They're down. Some places, 30 to 40 percent. The number one source of international applicants is down.”

Anyway, let me not go off on that. So colleges are already going through that, right? And so they're going to do the budget-cutting things, freezing salaries, freezing hirings, letting faculty and administrators go, hiring more adjunct professors and less full professors.

But they got to increase the revenue, because that's not enough. So what I'm going to share today are ways I'm fully expecting colleges to either tighten their belts, but mostly increase the revenue. And I'm particularly going to focus on ways that impact admissions.

“I feel very confident about this, but I did talk to one school this week, and they confirmed”

1. “So the first thing that popped in my mind is they're going to increase their class size. Now not everybody can do this.”

“Now, not everybody can do it to the same extent. A lot of places are constrained because there's just no capacity, especially for 2025. 2026, they have a little bit more time to plan and budget, but they're going to do it to the extent to which they can.

So for example, if you can bring $40,000 more in per kid, and you can add 250 kids, you just brought $10 million into your budget.”

“Another thing I am expecting, and this is part of how you are going to meet your class, is converting doubles to triples.”

2. “Okay, another thing. Look for more kids to get admitted in a regular decision. For schools to go out with more acceptances.”

3. Endowment is not a quick fix answer to NIH cuts with current market performance.

4. “Go to the waitlist more.” I am fully, fully, fully expecting, and I'd be very surprised if I'm wrong on this, to see more waitlist activity, more colleges going to the waitlist because remember, they want more students, so they want more students, and so that means you take more people off the waitlist because there's no way of getting more students.

5. Next thing, more focus on full pay and high pay. It's just inevitable. “If you need money, you need to get money, and you get money from tuition-paying parents. You might want more families that are full-pell students. You may in your heart of hearts feel like our school would be better with that, but that's not paying your bills.”

“Then when you take into consideration even the schools that say they truly are need blind, and I agree they're degrees of this, they still have to intentionally travel to affluent areas in their recruitment. There's no way they can say we don't have to target affluent communities. It's just the reality. So of all those schools that say they're need blind, there's a bunch of them that really truly aren't even need blind.”

“It's going to be more or less schools that are need blind, so the ability to pay is going to be prioritized, and families with money are going to have a significant advantage. Now, at the most selective schools, I'll be honest, there's so many people that can pay that don't think the school with a 10% admit rate is going to a 40% admit rate.

It just doesn't work like that. But it will be noticeable. It's not going to be noticeable like that, but it will be noticeable, especially if you work in those institutions, or if you work with a significant number of kids that apply to the schools, I'm confident you're going to see a difference.”

More to come

From Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews: 15 Changes in Admissions to Expect in 2025 and 2026, Mar 16, 2025
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this should be its on thread on here. [/quote]
My guess is they post/advertise/spam on here, but that's ok because sometimes they have interesting topics, like this one.

What I really want to know is what will happen with my high-stats full-pay kid this round, though we only have another 8-9 days to go, unless he ends up with a slew of waitlists.[/quote]

I posted it - not affiliated. Just an avid listener 
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