Their applications dropped to ~16K for fall of 2022 and went up to 20,900 for fall 2023. They have historically bounced between 19,000 to 21,000 in annual applications (I’m getting this data from the institutional research site). I don’t know what accounted for the steep drop for Fall 2022. The rebound in 2023 is likely due to sports success and the general influx of applications in the south in particular. I would find it extremely hard to believe they would generate 30-35,000 applications this year. If that is true, it will be waaayyyyy harder to get in.
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Perhaps they will release some figures tomorrow when the ED decisions go out. Love the way UGA Dean shares admissions information.
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If that happens there will be a whole lot of deferrals come 12/14. Best to prepare the hopefuls now. I know I’m going to prepare my daughter for the worst, and have hope for the best. Fingers crossed for all.
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Tomorrow Dec 1?
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Maybe
Frogfan confirmed ED will be out today around 5. Hopefully that is still the case…
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Edit: I missed the comment about it above. Is everyone who applied aware of the insane tuition and room/board increases starting next year? I have a HFD freshman and Senior potention HFS-found out just after he applied ED 
Yes, aware, and I would be lying if we said it wasn’t giving us pause in order to look at value. Ranked against other similarly ranked Universities (U of Tenn, UNH, CU, South Carolina, UVM, etc.) we will have a balance between draining the 529 and having some left over for graduate school (this of course assumes D24 even gets in).
It should give EVERYONE pause. Everyone has been outraged by it and TCU seems to have their head in the sand. Texas kids have lost their finaid because TCU no longer qualifies for loans because of the price. It’s been a complete shock.
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Wish we had known about the huge tuition increase before signing the ED agreement
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Is this confirmed? 5pm?
Hope 5pm
Is there a stop time? Or just by midnight?
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usually/last few years they start at 5 and it is done by 6. I would think it is only like 1,000 kids today. ED has not been huge in past.
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Excuse me… WHAT?
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Yep. Finaid in Texas is based on your major and potential income therefore apparently kids lost their FinAid bc TCU isn’t considered an investment for several professions/degrees. We aren’t Texas residents so I don’t know all th particularities-it was posted on the parent FB group today, but I’ll be looking into it too since my HFD had to include her major and profession plan on FAFSA too; TCU did not let families know, they found out the hard way apparently. It might not be just TCU btw.
exactly!
How does this compare to SMU? Isn’t SMU more expensive than TCU?
is it 5:00 PST or EST?
I assume it’s CST (local time for TCU).
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