(08-04-2017 05:04 PM)S.A. Owl Wrote:  The steadily increasing yield is, to me, the most encouraging number.

Excepting now they need to find nearly 100 more spaces on campus for freshman to live - which likely means upperclassmen being told they need to find space off campus to live after already making plans to live on campus.

And I say now, but obviously they've known of this "problem" since May (at the latest), so I'm sure it's already resolved.

I don't recall an explicit statement that they wanted to increase class sizes by yet another 100 students per year, which is why I do wonder if this wound up being a surprise.

It's good that more ultimately wanted to be at Rice. But it's not like on campus housing space is going to increase any time soon, which is why I question any "permanent" increase in class size.

I do think this may have been a one-time miscalculation, and not an intent to increase class size to 1050, 1100 or even more.