As colleges compete for fewer students, the pressure rises to meet enrollment targets

[LucieTheLakie]

Story from today’s Philadelphia Inquirer about colleges in the region.

[Bucknell University] found itself short of its freshman enrollment target and turned to the prospective students it had put on a waiting list. Instead of admitting 35 students off that list, as it usually does, the selective liberal arts university in central Pennsylvania took about 100. And it still started the fall a dozen students below its target.

“This was not a unique situation," [Bucknell president John C.] Bravman said at a Washington gathering of college presidents this month.

Some less selective colleges missed their targets by 25% or more this year, he said, and some elite schools went deeper into their wait lists.

https://www.inquirer.com/education/college-enrollment-student-bucknell-muhlenberg-ursinus-dickinson-20190930.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

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