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to cap enrollment He said there is a strong consensus among faculty, staff, the deans and others that TCU is now at or slightly larger than its overall optimal enrollment size.
Ferrari said this past enrollment year, TCU enrolled 1,514 students. TCU plans to decrease the size of enrollment by 2.4 percent or approximately 39 students. Dean of Admissions Ray Brown said TCU is not certain where the right enrollment size is, but officials are certain it’s a few percentage points lower than where they are. Thomas Oliver, director of freshman admissions, said TCU will possibly lower the number of offers of admission to around 3,800, approximately 200 less in comparison to last year. Brown said TCU made 4,000 offers of admission last year. He said TCU expects about 6,000 freshman applications which means about 2,200 applicants will be declined admission. Brown said TCU expects to hit 1,475 freshmen by being more selective in the students to whom TCU offers admission. Oliver said the selectivity will come in the form of prospective students’ high school academics. Higher high school GPAs and standardized test scores will be expected, he said. Oliver said potential students with marginal grades and scores will likely not be accepted. Ferrari said last fall that TCU would begin planning for a gradual reduction in the overall size of the freshman class. He said TCU will continue to reduce the freshman class size until TCU stabilizes the undergraduate population to about 6,200 out of a total enrollment of 8,000. Ferrari said large enrollments create stress with overcrowding in residence halls, parking, larger class sizes and more adjunct faculty. He said because of the larger entering classes and smaller graduating classes in recent years, TCU expects overall enrollment to grow by another 100 to 200 students in the 2002-2003 academic year. Ferrari said TCU’s enrollment will decline to their overall goal of 6,200 undergraduates by 2004. David
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