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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

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This is a guest blog by Stuart Jones, vice president for advancement and enrollment management at Southern Utah University. Stuart oversees the fundraising, marketing, and enrollment efforts at the university, and we have invited him to share his insights about the strategic enrollment planning process in this this post.

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West Virginia University May Cut 32 Majors, 7% of Faculty

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The cuts would affect several hundred students, accounting for less than 2% of the school's enrollment. Those proposed cuts would affect 147 undergraduate students and 287 graduate students based on fall 2023 enrollment figures, according to the release, accounting for less than 2% of the university's enrollment.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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Several colleges and universities recently have announced similar cuts, eviscerating the liberal arts in response to budget shortfalls, enrollment declines, and shifting student preferences. In many cases, low enrollment drove these decisions. By 2014, those figures had dropped to 2.6% At SUNY Potsdam, it’s 4%.

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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

We have gone from roughly 11,000 EA applicants in 2014 to almost 27,000 EA applicants this year, and we expect the overall applicant pool (EA and RD together) to show similar growth. If you look at the number of applicants over the past 10 years, you will see tremendous growth in our applicant pool both in size and in academic strength.

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

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For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% Amherst's decision echoed a similar move by Johns Hopkins University, which jettisoned legacy admissions in 2014. According to the complaint, almost 70% of Harvard's donor and legacy applicants are white. for non-legacies.

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UGA 2025 EA Numbers and Information

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

We have gone from roughly 11,000 EA applicants in 2014 to roughly 30,400 EA applicants this year, and we expect the overall applicant pool (EA and RD together) to show similar growth. If you look at the number of applicants over the past 10 years, you will see tremendous growth in our applicant pool both in size and in academic strength.

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The Future of Legacy Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

We know that from the period of 2014-2019, legacy applicants to Harvard enjoyed an admit rate of over 33 percent – a whopping five times greater than non-legacy applicants. ENROLL NOW WHY LEGACY PREFERENCES REMAIN IN PLACE Two reasons: admissions yield and fundraising.