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Fair points 82lsju.  I should have clarified that, when I said I attended in the Stone Age, I meant that I arrived in 1995 when Stanford had not yet broken ground on the Science and Engineering Quad.  I don't have precise numbers, but I seem to recall the freshman class was ~1600, so the total undergrad population was probably a bit over 6400.  The school guaranteed 4 years of undergraduate housing at that time, so I imagine the school already had at least 6400 housing units for undergrads.  When I went back for my reunion in 2019, the undergrad population was not far above the number in 1995 when I arrived, but the campus had added many, many new buildings.  The amount of new construction seemed over the top to me given the relatively minor change in undergrad population over the preceding 24 years.  I hadn't kept up with developments since 2019 and didn't realize that Stanford already increased the undergrad population another ~10% since 2019.  Good for Stanford.  In light of that, I don't have such a strong opinion on the potential to add another 7% to the undergrad population, but I'm still generally in the camp of those who think that Stanford should add as many undergrad spots as is reasonably practical.  For example, I wouldn't restrict the number simply to maintain the exclusivity of the school, and given the current ration of undergrads to grad students, I would not restrict the undergrad population to allow further additions to the graduate student population.

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Fair points 82lsju.  I should have clarified that, when I said I attended in the Stone Age, I meant that I arrived in 1995 when Stanford had not yet broken ground on the Science and Engineering Quad.  I don't have precise numbers, but I seem to recall the freshman class was ~1600, so the total undergrad population was probably a bit over 6400.  The school guaranteed 4 years of undergraduate housing at that time, so I imagine the school already had at least 6400 housing units for undergrads.  When I went back for my reunion in 2019, the undergrad population was not far above the number in 1995 when I arrived, but the campus had added many, many new buildings.  The amount of new construction seemed over the top to me given the relatively minor change in undergrad population over the preceding 24 years.  I hadn't kept up with developments since 2019 and didn't realize that Stanford already increased the undergrad population another ~10% since 2019.  Good for Stanford.  In light of that, I don't have such a strong opinion on the potential to add another 7% to the undergrad population, but I'm still generally in the camp of those who think that Stanford should add as many undergrad spots as is reasonably practical.  For example, I wouldn't restrict the number simply to maintain the exclusivity of the school, and given the current ration of undergrads to grad students, I would not restrict the undergrad population to allow further additions to the graduate student population.