<p>The other issue they might have to deal with is infrastructure. I know that at USC when there were just an extra 300 students one fall it wreaked havoc for housing, dining, parking and classroom scheduling. It would be great to admit more students, but the schools would need lead time to build more housing, more classrooms and hire more professors.</p>
<p>But mini -- if expectations differ across campuses, than it is hard to compare apples to apples.</p>
<p>For instance, both Harvard and URochester are COFHE institutions. If Harvard students have higher expectations than Rochester students then its possible that Rochester would score higher on the survey relative to Harvard.</p>
<p>And infrastructure is tough to crack sometimes when you are in the ghetto like USC is. But at Harvard, where a lot of students have rather large singles, it wouldn't be hard to make some of those into doubles. And I also knew some Harvard undergrads who chose to live off campus in the Cambridge/Somerville area, which can definitely absorb more people.</p>
<p>As a non-Harvard student, I hope Harvard never expands its class size because that means the soon-to-be-shrinking pool of top-notch students that currently fill the ranks of my "lesser Ivy" would be monopolized by Harvard, leaving my own institution with second-rate students such as myself!</p>
<p>omg another one of these threads.</p>
<p>omg why don't they do THIS
and why don't they do THAT
why don't they have golden toilets so that when I visit 'cause I don't even go there, I can enjoy their facilities.</p>
<p>Yay, ilovebagels! (BTW, I love bagels too)</p>
<p>I just don't understand why anyone would donate to Harvard. It's like bringing seashells TO the beach. Harvard has more money than they can use to educate their students - aren't there places to give money to that would actually use the donated money to help/educate people?</p>