College Pays Students Not to Attend
Ithaca College giving away as much as $10K to would-be freshman.
By NATALIE RIX
Updated 12:45 PM EST, Sun, Oct 11, 2009
Ithaca College is giving 31 students as much as $10,000 not to attend the school.
The upstate New York college admitted 250 more students than it could support after it was faced with a decline in enrollment last year that forced the school to review its admissions policies.
Though a temporary dorm, which cost 2.5 million to build, is helping alleviate some of the problem, the school still does not have enough room for the 31 students. The solution: Ithaca College is offering them as much as $10,000 to put off enrollment until next fall.
Ithaca had hoped to enroll no more than 1,750 freshman but found themselves with a class of 2,027 for this fall.
Get more: Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times
First Published: Oct 11, 2009 10:32 AM EST
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