Regular visitors to The Choice know that we try, whenever the opportunity presents itself, to remind readers that in sharp contrast to the competitive admissions landscape at some colleges, hundreds of other universities struggle every year to fill their freshman classes. For some of those institutions, the sluggish economy has only added to the challenge of completing the freshman class.
That means that those high school seniors unhappy with their college choices, or beginning their college search late in the academic year, could still end up somewhere terrific that may not yet be on their radar.
A good place to begin such a search would be the annual “Space Availability Survey” from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, which was released on the organization’s Web site today.
It lists more than 280 institutions that, according to Nacac, told the organization that they at least had limited room in this fall’s freshman class, and in some instances quite a bit of room. The list, which is alphabetical and easy to search (as well as convert to an Excel file) ranges from Agnes Scott College in Georgia to Youngstown State in Ohio, and covers a wide geographical area, from the University of Southern Maine to Florida State University to the University of Washington at Tacoma. A handful of universities abroad are also listed, including York St. John in England.
Interested applicants should, as always, reach out to the universities directly — and soon — to do their own fact-checking, perhaps using the “contact info” link in the far-right column of the survey.
Meanwhile, readers of The Choice are invited to offer their own perspective on the institutions listed in the survey, using the comment box below.
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