<p>If they overenrolled two years in a row, how will this affect the college? Will singles be converted into doubles and doubles into triples? Are midway house and pheonix house as nice a place to live as regular dorms and do they have enough house traditions? Will some of the people who wish to stay in houselife after freshman year get forced to live off campus in apartments? Will class sizes enlarge, people get shut out more frequently or will they simply create more classes? Will it become harder to find good research opportunities, internships, and good work-study positoons?</p>
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<li><p>There are some singles that were converted to doubles for this past year. I don’t know if they plan to continue down that path or not. (Seems like they already did that as much as they could…). These singles that were converted to doubles were REALLY large singles and were no smaller than the average double.</p></li>
<li><p>While there are obviously less passed-down traditions in the new houses, they seem to still be flourishing. They have been putting some of the most experienced RHs in the new houses which can help students create new traditions based on other house’s traditions.</p></li>
<li><p>In terms of housing, the administration is 100% committed to allowing all students the opportunity to stay in on-campus housing. If the class size increases again (I haven’t seen numbers about yield yet), I’m not sure what they plan to do…but after talking to MANY administrators, the thing that is most clear is that they continue to be 100% committed to providing all students with on-campus housing (if they so choose).</p></li>
<li><p>Hard to say. There has been some stress getting into certain classes, but the university has been committed to increasing the number of classes vs. the number of students in each class. Notably, they added a bunch of calculus classes this past year in the mix of registration. I think the classes with the ‘big name’ professors will continue to get harder to get into.</p></li>
<li><p>There are so many research opportunities on campus it is almost ridiculous. I don’t think that will ever be a problem. Same with work-study positions. In terms of internships, they have dramatically increased the number of Metcalf opportunities (paid internships oftentimes subsidized by the university). Especially with the increase of Metcalf opportunities, I don’t think students should fear finding internships.</p></li>
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<p>So, I think that basically sums up that the administration is committed to not allowing the additional enrollment to affect the experience of students. With the increase of students, the administration has spent a lot of time thinking about how to allocate additional resources to the various areas that most-heavily impact students.</p>