<p>Are yiou kidding me....this is what every school dreams about: to get higher yielding numbers. How could this be a bad thing??? If there are more students attending i am sure the Regents at the UC will allocate more money to Davis. The higher the yielding numbers are, the higher the school goes up in the rankings.</p>
<p>I think rankings are based on more than yield numbers. If you are right, and funding to the school by the UC Regents goes up in direct proportion to the number of students entering the school; then maybe the influx of 900+ students is a good thing. However, if the funding does not go up in direct proportion to the number of students entering the school and/or if the quality of education suffers as a result of the 900+ extra students then this is not a good thing. Quantity and quality are usually, but not always, incompatible in academic settings. </p>
<p>Also, it seems to me that there has been a big breakdown in planning at UC Davis. It appears that the people who run UC Davis have not properly planned for this and are rushing around without a coherant plan to handle this crisis that they appear to have created for themselves.</p>
<p>UC Davis should provide additional dorm space to cover this type of situation, on years when the numbers are down then the dorms could be opened to sophmores or transfer students. Since fit is an important consideration in deciding on a college, and housing and crowded classrooms impact the fit for many students, this situation cannot be interpreted to be a good thing. Davis's ranking was set to rise anyway since last year's lower ranking was the result of a clerical error in response to a magazines request.</p>
<p>There are many students who could not get into their first choice classes this year and were told to wait until next year...now will the University really tell them to wait until after the freshman get their choice...I hope not. Ask communication majors about the difficulty in getting into their intro classes....Who will teach the additional classes...are you reading about any searches for additional professors? I suspect this will benefit some grad students and local community college teachers who will be hired to teach a few extra night classes...but hopefully I am wrong. Maybe some overpaid administrators will welcome students into their homes.</p>
<p>Well said ab_med!</p>
<p>From a credible campus source-more students equals more money-end of story-the tuition that the students pay goes directly to the campus enrolling the students. </p>
<p>An interesting statistic is that the quality of students with the larger class are as good if not better than previous years so there will be no negative effect on the selection criteria for all of those of you placing such a high value on rankings (but I think it is interesting that you-mvellius-apparently place the most merit on those rankings that rank UCD lower rather than the Washington Post ranking that places UCD right behind Harvard at 17th in the nation based on the university's contribution to the society).</p>
<p>Mr. B wrote:</p>
<p>"Maybe some overpaid administrators will welcome students into their homes."</p>
<p>Maybe some of these overpaid administrators should take a cut in pay to help bring down tuition costs.</p>