Yale to Expand

New Haven, residential college, Richard C. Levin, Yale

President Richard C. Levin of Yale University has announced that the University will construct two new residential college and “expand its footprint” in New Haven. This expansion will alleviate some overcrowding in the current residential colleges, and it will allow the undergraduate student body to grow by about 13 percent.

This expansion won’t make it much easier to get in, however.

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