The issue currently is that Brown has a 3-year residency requirement, but not enough housing to make that happen. They want only seniors living off campus but have to allow juniors to get out as well. We had a little crisis last year when too many seniors opted to live on campus and they had to give last-minute permission to more juniors to even it out.

But they’re about to finish the second and third of 3 new dorm buildings this fall, hoping to push the number of juniors off-campus down even further. Along with that, they say(probably take this with a grain of salt) that there is no plan to admit more students per year in the foreseeable future.