<p>The class was once again bigger than anticipated. </p>
<p>I hope they have adequate dorm room space.</p>
<p>Also, I wonder what this will do to next years class?</p>
<p>Wow, that really is something. They will probably lose 25-50 as is typical for “summer melt”, but still. Where did you see this, or was it announced during orientation?</p>
<p>announced during orientation last wed/thurs</p>
<p>Thanks. I guess this goes to prove that admissions has only so much control over getting the right numbers. I also heard there are a record number of juniors going abroad, maybe that will help. My D is, so there is 1 more space!</p>
<p>again, I say, “bring back ED”…much easier to control the size of the class…</p>
<p>FC: don’t most juniors go abroad for Spring Semester? or is that just in schools that are in the frozen tundra…</p>
<p>My son is going abroad this Fall of his junior year because there is too much going on in the Spring, i.e. Mardi Gras!</p>
<p>^^ oh yea…forgot about that…!!</p>
<p>They could build three new dorms if they would charge SOMETHING for an application!</p>
<p>^^^lol…yea but then they wouldn’t be able to say they had 4 million people applying…wink, wink…</p>
<p>My thoughts EXACTLY, Vitrac! Of course,t hey’d have less applicants too… so it all evens out :)</p>
<p>Even if they charged $10/app. Given a 50% drop in applications, down to 2 million applications/year–we’re talkin some serious renovations!</p>
<p>2 million??? lol I think it is around 40,000, and if that dropped by, say, 1/4 because of the fee that would be 30,000, so $300,000. While I wouldn’t argue that is chump change, it is a loooong way from what the new dorm cost (many many millions). Don’t think that is the answer, besides which I honestly don’t know where they would put 3 new dorms. Tulane is quite space limited unfortunately. One of the only downsides to being in such a nice part of New Orleans is that cheap, adjacent and AVAILABLE land doesn’t exist like it did for schools like Penn, USC, and some others.</p>
<p>I know some of the above was tongue-in-cheek, sorry to get serious.</p>
<p>they are building a brand new dorm next to Butler. however, i do believe it was the last available spot for one. i believe it is slated to be a sophomore dorm.</p>
<p>What is the usual/target number for a freshman class?</p>
<p>Usually about 1500-1550, but last freshman class was 1630 (after summer melt, was originally 1680) so they first announced they were targeting about 1400 then amended that to 1450. So still quite a bit over.</p>
<p>As far as space for new dorms (even ignoring the cost for now), one would have to demolish Phelps, Irby and Paterson, I suppose taking Bruff down too and rebuild that entire section of campus with higher density housing by going higher. Personally I see no other way of increasing the number of rooms available, but I am no architect or planner of this sort. Given the age and lack of historical or other interest of those buildings, it would be a good move in the long run but I have no idea what the school would do while that construction was going on.</p>
<p>Rice U addressed some of its housing issues by buying up some homes/land adjacent to the campus. I think in their case it was somehow part of a plan for graduate housing, and not related to the reuse of land for the building of the new residential colleges that were built in past years, but I am not entirely sure. My point is that perhaps Tulane could look into buying up some of the houses/land adjacent to campus for expansion purposes. There is also the field (I think it has astro turf on it) in front of Reily and there is the field between Bruff and Wall that had that funky temporary “bubble” bldg of it a few years back (used as the university center while the LBC was being built). Just thoughts… no clue if these spaces are big enough for a dorm.</p>
<p>Maybe the Tulane police could start enforcing the drinking age and the University could buy adjacent commercial property cheap. They could call the dorm “Boot Hill”</p>
<p>but its not on a hill…</p>
<p>All the more amusing…</p>
<p>It should be crystal clear to all of us that there is one, and only one cause, for the size of Tulane’s entering freshman class. And while I am usually the last to lay blame on just one individual, sometimes it just has to be done. And no, it is neither George Bush nor Barack Obama this time. It is our very own fallenchemist, without whose tireless efforts on behalf of Tulane and its propsies and propsy parents, many of our DDs and DSs would be attending inferior universities with over-amped reputations and less-than-generous financial aid awards. With that, I ask that one and all raise their glasses to a true CC giant - fallenchemist! Bravo, fallenchemist, and thank you.</p>