Yale to boost undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent

Yale University in New Haven, Conn., will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent, to about 6,000, by building two new residential colleges that are expected to open in 2013. The undergraduate program, admits fewer than 10 percent of the more than 20,000 people who apply each year. The last significant increase in the student body came with the admission of women in 1969. In recent decades, the undergraduate enrollment has fluctuated between 5,150 and 5,350.

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