Emily Almas

As the class of 2025 prepares to arrive on campus, administrators and incoming students reflect on how COVID changed the admissions process

The unprecedented admissions cycle yielded more applicants, a lower acceptance rate and a higher number of students accepting the University’s offer of admission. 

| Contributing Reporter

Residential Life changes housing assignments for 150 students after WU admits ‘unexpectedly large’ freshman class, frustrating sophomores

Sophomores said that they were shocked and saddened by the housing assignment changes that relocated many of them from the South 40 to the Northside.

| Senior News Editor

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