Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 16:30     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
graduating Yale class of 2025 is 1789
incoming Yale class of 2029 will be 1650ish.

they're trying to just stabilize from year to year.

They have 6750 undergrads up campus. New "higher" goal is about 6600.

Yale doesn't need more full pay kids. They don't need any full pay kids tbh. Get real.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:57     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:Saw this.

Why?

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02/04/yale-to-increase-undergraduate-class-size/


Why SHOULDN’T they do it? Their mission is to create and disseminate knowledge, not a provide an exclusive enclave for an ever-shrinking privileged few. Frankly, they should do far more than this.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:46     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.


Make some updates to your LOCIs this month, referencing certain ECs that are markers for full-pay!!!

Didn't you already indicate not wanting FA in the original application?


they don't see that...its blacked out to be "need-blind",,,,
and there's a big difference btw being full pay and giving the impression you are "wealthy"

in this new world order, being wealthy is "in" again.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:41     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.


Make some updates to your LOCIs this month, referencing certain ECs that are markers for full-pay!!!

Didn't you already indicate not wanting FA in the original application?
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:39     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.


Make some updates to your LOCIs this month, referencing certain ECs that are markers for full-pay!!!


Haha. Let's see: horseback riding, fencing, golf, sailing, squash, ski-racing, scuba-diving... What else would fall into this category?


School-sponsored trips that are $$$ this spring.
Plus polo, ice skating; and building houses for the poor in Belize or Guatemala or Haiti at spring break.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:35     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.


Make some updates to your LOCIs this month, referencing certain ECs that are markers for full-pay!!!


Haha. Let's see: horseback riding, fencing, golf, sailing, squash, ski-racing, scuba-diving... What else would fall into this category?
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:29     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.


Make some updates to your LOCIs this month, referencing certain ECs that are markers for full-pay!!!
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:19     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need more full-pay students right now for this current class being reviewed to start in the fall.

Their CFO and GC called the head of admissions.


So, when they report data next year for the class of 2029, what % do you think full pay will be? For Yale Class of 2027 (23-24 CDS), 54% get grant aid, 46% no grants.


Wow. That's crazy. I'd expect the no grants would be much higher. At least 55-60% for the math to work. They do NOT want to draw on the endowment to supplement the missing federal aid. The endowment is earmarked for the next fiscal year already. Can't just change without the finance committee and investment committee of Yale's approval.

Btw, this would be the case for any other school too.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:15     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Maybe a good sign for the full pay referrals from the REA round.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 14:06     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:They need more full-pay students right now for this current class being reviewed to start in the fall.

Their CFO and GC called the head of admissions.


So, when they report data next year for the class of 2029, what % do you think full pay will be? For Yale Class of 2027 (23-24 CDS), 54% get grant aid, 46% no grants.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 13:56     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Smart. Harvard can't do it. Real estate too expensive in Cambridge. It's cheap in New Haven. I'd do the same.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 13:53     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
They need more full-pay students right now for this current class being reviewed to start in the fall.

Their CFO and GC called the head of admissions.

Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 13:51     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.


It's the timing of the announcement is interesting. Expansion is not news, but they don't normally break the news in the middle of the admission season, in between the REA and RD.


What do you think it could mean?



I don't know if this is it but I know so many high stats kids who simply don't bother applying these days because it's perceived as an impossible admit. Maybe they want to create the perception it's not impossible?


This may be true. I think that's how I think about Harvard these days. I think something like 30 or 40% of the freshmen were student body presidents of their high school. My kid is not that kind of kid, so I don't even think my kid has a chance there.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 13:50     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.


It's the timing of the announcement is interesting. Expansion is not news, but they don't normally break the news in the middle of the admission season, in between the REA and RD.


Exactly.
The apps are already in for this year.
This is an enrollment management issue I think.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2025 13:42     Subject: Yale increasing undergraduate class size?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yale added two residential colleges that allowed them to increase their enrollment by 15% within the last 10 years. Adding new seats is not new for yale based on the recent past.

Not sure how many other extremely selective universities have added this much enrollment capacity recently.


It's the timing of the announcement is interesting. Expansion is not news, but they don't normally break the news in the middle of the admission season, in between the REA and RD.


What do you think it could mean?



I don't know if this is it but I know so many high stats kids who simply don't bother applying these days because it's perceived as an impossible admit. Maybe they want to create the perception it's not impossible?