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If You Can Use A Fork, You May Want to Consider Other Schools in Addition to York

By David Topping

It shouldn’t really be news to anyone (except for maybe Maple High School’s guidance head Joanne Brown), but the Star is reporting a 10.8% drop in overall student applications to York, and a 15% drop in the number of students who ranked York as their first choice for schools they wanted to apply to. Which is sorta funny, because U of T—which saw an increase both in number of applications and number of those applicants ranking the school their first choice—is the school that’s trying to cut their undergrad numbers. The most impressive rise in first-choice applicants, though: OCAD. Applications to the school are up 5.5%, and the number of first-choice applicants is up 20.8%. Maybe this wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

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  • Lands Down

    Smart kids. Regardless of the outcome of the current dispute there will be another strike at the end of the new contract, in either two or three years, depending on the term they get. Why bother with York?
    I hope York starts cutting graduate student enrolment.

  • http://null thewatchmaker

    York’s undergraduate enrollment won’t drop, of course. It just means that they’ll reject fewer people.
    But regarding graduate enrollment – York’s official plan says that it will ideally rise another 11%. This is in addition to years of gradually increasing growth. (I can’t find the actual school-wide total, but my own program was asked to increase enrollment by about 28%.) And CUPE 3903 is 46% larger now than it was during the 00/01 strike. York couldn’t possibly have thought that increasing 3903′s numbers and its share of the classroom hours would make the union easier to deal with or less apt to strike. (In fact, they admitted the opposite by writing a new Senate policy that would shut the school down for the duration of a strike.)
    But so long as increasing graduate student numbers and increasing the amount of work shouldered by CUPE allows York access to more cheap labour, it appears to be a compromise that they’re comfortable in making.