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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That article is VT trying to turn their enrollment management failure into a positive.  Other schools purposefully enroll fewer and then take from the waitlist on May 2, 3 etc. so they don't have the VT nightmare.  The year before VT had the biggest "underenrollment" that they managed by taking off the waitlist like most responsible schools do. Out of all the schools, VT vacillates the most in missing their enrollment targets in both directions. [/quote]
I trust a university administrator as little as the next guy, but then there's also the fact that overall enrollment in VA [url=https://nscresearchcenter.org/currenttermenrollmentestimate-spring2019/]has been falling for the last several years across all institutions[/url] (for VA, the decline was 1.7% from 2018 to 2019, with -1% and -.9% the years before. The number of enrolled undergrads in Title IV schools fell from 480,073 in Spring 17 to 467,031 in Spring 19. Those students VT overadmitted would otherwise have filled other institutions' rolls, and those institutions are still short.)[/quote]

None of the top 5 or so Virginia public schools are short on their enrollments that I know of (the NACAC list was pulled July 1, but I don't think any were on it).  Many (as they do every year) pull from their waitlist, but actually there was a smaller percent pulled this year than last year from UVA and W&M.

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What I know most have done is reduce their future enrollment forecasts to the state to match demographic changes.[/quote]

T[b]here has been a big drop off in Community College enrollment.[/b]  I think the top schools still have a good number of quality applicants and stats may even come up.  The ones that are struggling the most are the less selective and the smaller private schools.[/quote]

Citation please.  I have not seen that in the Chronicle of HIgher Ed or anywhere else.[/quote]

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