Class of '05 receives incentive to defer
Due to an unexpectedly large yield for the incoming Class of 2005, Dartmouth will waive a year's price of room and board -- approximately $5,000 -- for students who defer enrollment for a year. The Enrollment Committee, in an effort to keep the class size down and ease the swelling housing crunch, decided to persuade incoming '05s to defer, after 86 more '05s accepted the offer of admission than was projected. "When we realized that the Class of '05 was going to be a bit larger than we had projected ... we figured that we were going to be a little bit tight on housing this fall, and that we might take some steps to reduce the size of the Class of '05," Karl Furstenberg, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, explained. According to Lynn Rosenblum, Director of Housing, the large incoming class has made the alleviation of the housing crunch an immediate priority. "We've looked at rooms reserved for the 2005s to see if there's any possibility that perhaps a single is large enough to be a double, or a double is large enough to be a triple," she said. The possibility of rooming people in lounge spaces is also being looked at, but whether that happens, and who would have to room there, has not yet been decided. "Those are the kinds of things we've been looking at to see if there's any ways we can expand, and we found a few, but not enough to make a tremendous difference," she explained. The '05s are not the only ones who may be without housing this Fall term, however.