<p>Bloomberg reports that discussions are underway at Yale University to decide whether it would be a good move to increase undergraduate enrollment by as much as 15 percent to accommodate as many as 200 more students in each year's freshman class:</p>
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<code>If they take more students, the schools who are going to lose in this domino effect are the ones directly below them in the Top 10,'' said Maguire, formerly dean of admissions at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.</code>They will take some students from Penn and Columbia, and Penn and Columbia will take students from BC and Holy Cross.''</p>
<p><code>The principal reason for moving up is that we are turning down so many great kids,'' Levin said.</code>The applicant pool is so much larger, and selectivity is so much greater.''...</p>
<p>The risk for Yale is that with a bigger community, the school might not feel right to some students, said Katherine Cohen, the chief executive officer of IvyWise, a New York consultant on admissions.</p>
<p><code>It is so individual when students are looking at communities,'' Cohen said in a telephone interview.</code>Yale might be too big for them, so they look at an Amherst College or Williams College.''
<p>I didn't know this is news with all the talk about two more residential colleges. Heck in the Alumni magazine, they're taking "informal" suggestions as for whom the new Colleges should be named.</p>
<p>menuetto and ajayc: This thread is also running on the general thread. A relevant fact that's missing from these posts is that any enrollment expansion won't happen for about 8-10 years. Unless you're in the 3-5th grade right now, it won't affect you. The cited Bloomberg article explains it. There's another article in the BostonHerald that cites the Bloomberg article which ignores that fact and would lead the reader to think it's an imminent happening -- which it isn't. That Boston Herald article is misleading in its negligence</p>
<p>From the Yale Alumni Magazine and the rumblings I hear when I'm in New Haven, I think the two new colleges are a done deal. It will be very interesting how they re-orient the campus. I'd be curious to hear from alums who attended when Stiles and Morse first opened, although I think those folks are past the college application years.</p>
<p>Im very depressed right now. I never really considered yale as a transfer option but a visit has effectively placed it at the top of my list (spot previously held by Columbia). God that school seems amazing. Why the depression, you ask? Because I realize that Im now aiming for an HYP- the only trinity of admission with so many recorded rejections.</p>