Yale Daily News

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New colleges would help to ease current crowding

Officials considering ways to admit more students, potential locations unknown

Staff reporters, Staff reporters
Published Friday, February 27, 2004

University officials are considering the addition of two to four new residential colleges, Yale President Richard Levin said Tuesday.

Levin said the University will not consider implementing this plan until the renovations of the existing 12 colleges are complete. The goal of the expansion would be to admit the qualified students Yale is unable to accept each year because of space constraints, he said.

"There's so many outstanding students that we must turn down," Levin said. "If Yale has a modest expansion, we would be fulfilling our mission even more than...

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