Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 14:13     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
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Anonymous wrote:Wake is adding 100 students a year for 10 years.



That would almost double the size of the undergraduate population, assuming Wake is adding 100 undergraduate students a year.


Very big news!
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 14:10     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
Anonymous wrote:So they're going from 1000 to 1300.

The flippant way the thread title refers to a 30% population increase shows an ignorance about the resources needed to students.


This.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 14:04     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
Anonymous wrote:Wake is adding 100 students a year for 10 years.



That would almost double the size of the undergraduate population, assuming Wake is adding 100 undergraduate students a year.
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2025 23:39     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
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Anonymous wrote:This is not just a matter of adding a dorm. They would have to raise course enrollment sizes then, build larger classrooms, and/or hire more professors and TAs, build offices for those professors, etc., unless parents are fine with larger classes, crappier grading due to staff shortages, and cramped facilities.


not for 300 more kids. they offer way more than 300 courses! adding one kid to your course load over 3 classes will not break a teacher or a classroom


They increased freshmen class from 1000 to 1300. Presumably they will do this every year so eventually it will be 4000–>5200 for all five years. This is a huge change in the student population. Hope they can handle it without decreasing quality and increasing competition for lab jobs, internships, course slots, campus resources, and faculty attention.
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2025 12:40     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
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Anonymous wrote:Makes sense - southern and texas schools are growing, it's where more of the population is moving and is now seen by traditional upper class as a viable option.

Rice is going to be one of the southern elites in a decade.


Rice already is a southern elite and national elite. And Houston is a vibrant location to study in. One of the fastest growing and most diverse cities in the US and extremely liberal (consistently Blue voting) in past several elections for those afraid of Texas.


this.


Almost 40% of students at Rice live off-campus. That's quite high for a private college of this size. Doesn't that signal a lack of dorms to house the existing 4k students?


Could also just be that they don't *want* to live on campus?
They don't even house all the freshmen. It's a source of anxiety for a lot of kids there.


I'm so confused. Are you saying Rice doesn't house all the freshman on campus? Because that is just false. All the Freshman are assigned to a residential college.
Berkley
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2025 12:12     Subject: I love that Rice is adding 300 new first year student seats next year. Why don't more colleges add seats?
I don’t think people actually want the schools to get bigger, just big enough to get their kid in and then stop.