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When Your School’s Enrollment is Full: What’s Next?

Enrollment Catalyst

Remember the economic recession of 2008? Demographics shift, competition intensifies, and what attracted families to your school one year might not work the next. You never know what environmental issues will affect your enrollment. Just because your enrollment is full this year does not guarantee your school’s future success.

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Dartmouth College Waitlist Acceptance Rate

Ivy Coach

Dartmouth College Waitlist Acceptance Rate The below is Dartmouth College’s waitlist data for the Class of 2026 through 2008, covering 19 years of waitlist statistics for the College on the Hill. This data is drawn from the figures Dartmouth self-reported to The Common Data Set.

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Colleges Want More Of The Shrinking Pie

Admissions Village

The demographic cliff refers to how the number of traditional college-aged students will peak in 2025 and then decline dramatically for several years, the result primarily of declining birth rates following the 2008 recession.

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The enrollment cliff crisis: How to pivot, not panic

Niche

The most significant driver of the higher education enrollment cliff is the sharp decline in birth rates following the 2008 economic recession. During that time of economic stress and uncertainty, people were having fewer children, with the number of kids born between 2008 and 2011 plummeting dramatically.

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The Admissions Process Is Not Necessarily About You!

Admissions Village

Nine states currently ban affirmative action: California (1996), Washington (1998), Florida (1999), Michigan (2006), Nebraska (2008), Arizona (2010), New Hampshire (2012), Oklahoma (2012), and Idaho (2020). Some colleges will prioritize ethnically underrepresented groups.

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MIT Legacy Policies and Guide

The Koppelman Group

While MIT did mistakenly include alumni/ae relations as something that was considered in the Common Data Set from 2004-2008, they have stated that they do not know how this error was introduced. They follow through on what they believe, refusing to take legacy into account in admissions.

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College Programs for Students With Intellectual Disabilities Grow With Little Oversight

BestColleges

Rewind to 2008, when Congress last reauthorized the Higher Education Act. She added that the 2008 reauthorization also directed the Department of Education to create Comprehensive Transition Program (CTP) guidelines. What Are These Programs? Prior to this action, post-high school programs for these students were often segregated.

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