<p>UChicago's undergrad enrollment reached 5,662 for Fall 2012. (5612 + 50 lab school and visiting students.) They haven't released the report yet which breaks things down by year yet. But since the current fourth year class is smaller than the current first year class, total enrollment should climb further for Fall 2013.</p>
<p>Office</a> of the Registrar</p>
<p>College should have ~1525 new students this year, and for the Class of 2012, most likely they only had ~1250. After graduation of the Class of 2012, the net increase is about ~250 students. This guess is right if the number 5662 is compared to last year’s 5421 total students.</p>
<p>Hi @david05 </p>
<p>The figures the University reported to the State of Illinois for last year–Fall of 2011–for College enrollment were:</p>
<p>Fall 2011
01 First‐time Freshmen 1411
02 Other First‐year (transfers) 62
03 Second‐year 1420
04 Third‐year 1256
05 Fourth‐year and beyond 1162 </p>
<p>So using last year’s report, this year’s break down (with the larger entering class) should look something like this:</p>
<p>Fall 2012
01 First‐time Freshmen 1525
02 Other First‐year (transfers) 20
03 Second‐year 1473
04 Third‐year 1420
05 Fourth‐year and beyond 1256
(This comes out to 5,694, though the actual number is 5,612-5,662, for various reasons–early graduation, attrition, etc.)</p>
<p>The question is what next year will be. If they really go for a class size of 1,400–and don’t over-enroll intentionally or unintentionally because of higher yield, it may be something look like this:</p>
<p>Fall 2013
01 First‐time Freshmen 1400
02 Other First‐year (transfers) 20
03 Second‐year 1545
04 Third‐year 1473
05 Fourth‐year and beyond 1420</p>
<p>This would give a class size for Fall 2013 of 5,858 (and with some attrition perhaps 5,800)–unless the entering class turns out to be larger than 1,400 again.</p>
<p>If Chicago aims at 1400 class size for the Class of 2017, and if the application pool is 10%~15% increase to ~28000, and if the yield is around 50%, then the admit rate will be around 10% or even lower than 10%. But I guess Chicago administrators are a little bit conservative, the admit rate will be around 11%.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Based on Boyer’s comments (below) in UChicago Magazine, it appears 1,400 students is still the goal for the Class of 2017… (The College appears to have 5,600 students at the moment, according to the Registrar, not 5,400 as the article mentions. That was last year’s figure.)</p>
<p>[Back</a> to the future | The University of Chicago Magazine](<a href=“http://mag.uchicago.edu/university-news/back-future]Back”>Back to the future | The University of Chicago Magazine)</p>
<p>Excerpts…</p>
<p>“With about 5,400 students today, the College compares to Princeton and Yale, still at the smaller end of the so-called Ivy-plus group of peer institutions, but no longer an outlier. Boyer doesn’t foresee the enrollment getting much larger—in part, he says, because campus housing is inadequate even for the current number.</p>
<p>He believes two new residence halls, including one to replace Pierce Tower, are essential to the future of the College. He’s so strong an advocate that some considered Boyer a suspect in last winter’s Pierce plumbing problems that included water outages and exploding toilets. “I have been accused of actually going over with a monkey wrench and causing it,” he says with a smile. “I want to say: I officially deny that…”</p>
<p>“…Because 47 percent of the admitted applicants (for the Class of 2016) chose to enroll, another all-time high for the College, it’s a class of 1,525 students, a one-time increase to accommodate the interest.”</p>