Yale to Expand Undergraduate Enrollment by 15 Percent – increase fund-raising campaign to $3.5 billion

The president of Yale University announced on Saturday that Yale will increase its undergraduate enrollment by 15 percent, to about 6,000, by building two new residential colleges that are expected to open in 2013.

In a letter to alumni, faculty, students and staff, Yale’s president, Richard C. Levin, said that Yale College, the undergraduate program, admits fewer than 10 percent of the more than 20,000 people who apply each year.

By TAMAR LEWIN

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