Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new residential colleges; added space would be almost 500,000 square feet. He has asked the Yale finance office to develop firm plans for the new addition. Similarly, Harvard is planning to build four new undergrad dorms, along with a new science complex in the city of Allston.
This sounds like good news for future generations of Ivy League students. We’ll see if less well-endowed institutions can follow suit. Certainly there appears to be a global interest in these growth plans and state university systems in the U.S. are under real pressure due to tax revenue limitations.
For more about this see… Yale Pushes Expansion To Ease Admissions Process – February 20, 2008 – The New York Sun
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