May 30, 2008

For Admissions Deans, Waiting-List Roulette Gets Trickier

By ERIC HOOVER

For months a four-digit number has hovered over Douglas L. Christiansen. It's there when he falls asleep and there when he wakes up. The number is 1,550, the size of the freshman class he must enroll this fall — no more, no less.

Although Mr. Christiansen, associate provost for enrollment and dean of admissions at Vanderbilt University, has many qualified applicants, he cannot know exactly how many admitted students will enroll. This year Vanderbilt received a record 16,800

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