University braces for another record enrollment year

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University braces for another record enrollment year

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University President Mung Chiang told the university’s faculty senate that this fall could be another record enrollment year.

Chiang told Purdue’s University Senate on Monday that based on applications high school students have filed so far this year, this would be a “record year by a long stretch.”

For reference, the university received 78,526 applications for the Fall 2024 semester. Of that, 39,096 were admitted and 11,388 chose Purdue — the largest freshman class up to that point.

Chiang said in the fall that he understands that Purdue’s student housing found itself in a “crunch time” this summer after announcing it overadmitted for the 2024-25 freshman class, causing the university to propose alternative housing assignments to students at a discounted rate in an effort to manage the additional 1,600 students.

Although the university tried to reduce the number of admitted students to its current freshman class, then Chiang pointed to the acceptance deadline being pushed back to May 15 in light of the struggles with FAFSA applications.

Typically, May 1 is the acceptance deadline for new students, but the two-week window of abnormality caused the surge in new admits for the school year.

“We are going to further and significantly reduce the admissions rate for the incoming undergraduate class, not because as a land grant institution we somehow want to enhance the selectivity for the wrong reasons, but simply because this city of West Lafayette and this campus are not built for the kind of enrollment that we have today,” Chiang said in August.

Although the president did not address Monday whether the university will admit fewer freshmen, its answer looks to be in the form of increased deferrals, he said. Deferrals are different than being waitlisted, and it’s probably not what many potential students wanted to see when admission offers went out Jan. 15.

“A defer decision simply means that we need additional time to assess the space in your desired program before making a final decision,” the university’s undergraduate admission website reads. “Students are encouraged to provide new grades and test scores (if tests were taken but scores were not sent to Purdue).”

This follows Purdue’s plans to more precisely determine future class sizes, something that’s been a strain for students, West Lafayette and Lafayette residents dealing with housing and parking pains, among others.

No senators asked Chiang about admissions.

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