<p>How bad is the availability of housing at Tufts? I heard that there are 120 kids this year who are assigned 3 to a room designed to be doubles. Also, how hard is it to find housing after freshman year?</p>
<p>Housing is guaranteed for your freshman, sophomore, and senior years. Junior year a lot of kids go abroad or live off-campus. Lots of people who get good lottery numbers junior year even choose to live off-campus, which means that those that didnt'get good lottery numbers often get to live on-campus.</p>
<p>The reason there was this whole over-tripling this year is because every school's admissions committee needs to do a little guesswork when sending out offers of admission. We'll accept X and hope to get a class of Y (at Tufts, usually 1,200). What happened this year (and with the class of 2009, too) is that the adcom underestimated X and ended up with a class of over 1,300 kids. As a result, for both the class of 2009 and 2011, zero people got off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Now that this has happened twice in three years, I am betting the acceptance rate will go down for the class of 2012 so that X is closer to Y. </p>
<p>I was actually rather surprised Tufts didn't learn their lesson with the class of 2009... because from what I've read/heard, overenrollment for this year's class was significantly worse. I don't see why they don't just lower X and go to the waitlist, if necessary. Tufts' yield is only going to get better and better what with Tufts' increased recognition across the country/globe -- which means that the risk for overenrollment is greater, and the gravity of it as well.</p>
<p>OK, ALL THAT BEING SAID :) , triples aren't that bad -- you might make one more friend than you would have otherwise. And you'll be spending more time outside of your room than you think -- Tisch Library could become your home... and not to mention that social life you'll cater to...</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman and was assigned a single - go figure! </p>
<p>My understanding is that the enrollment this year was larger than anticipated because of the availability of additional (3 million) financial aid money. So, more accepted students were given financial aid packages that enabled them to say "yes" to Tufts. </p>
<p>I only hope this won't impact class registrations, etc. for the class of 2011. Tufts will have to make some adjustments.</p>
<p>ha! I had a relatively early registration time and most, if not all, the Philosophy classes were full. Most of my friends who were assigned later registration times had to rethink and rework their schedules by the end of the day.</p>
<p>yeah, but that happens every year with freshmen. classes are gonna fill up and you might not get the ones you want. i don't see that as unique to this incoming (large) class.</p>
<p>Indeed, the yield for the class of 2011 was 5 percent higher than the year before. </p>
<p>(Note the headline is misleading, it should be "housing and high yield expected to drop ACCEPTANCE RATE" not enrollment -- good job, Daily!)</p>