Union's Class of 2000while not yet on campus-already is making quite an impression.
A week after the May 1 reply deadline, the Admissions Office had received more than 620 deposits from accepted seniors for a class targeted at 520.
The yield was a fifteen percent increase-eighty students-over last year at the same point. The usual “summer
melt” – students who send in deposits but do not arrive on campus in September for whatever
reason could mean a class as large as 580.
Dan Lundquist, vice president of admissions and financial aid, said his office did everything
predicated on getting a class of 520 students and admitted the same number of students as it has in other recent years.
“We can safely infer that we are really getting
out there in the market,” he said.
The largest class to actually arrive on campus was the Class of 1991, which showed up 550 strong in September, 1987.