yes. full. without having to give the same opportunity to ILLEGAL MEXICANS who, apparently, are not content with those "jobs that Americans dont want" after all.
Mizzou stops taking applications
STLtoday - Mizzou stops taking applications
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- With enrollment for the fall semester already at record levels, the University of Missouri-Columbia has decided to stop taking admissions applications from freshmen.
Already 5,860 freshmen have paid the initial enrollment deposit, which would be the largest freshmen class by more than 850 students.
Freshmen enrollment in the fall of last year was 5,027. The official enrollment, determined after the 20th day of classes, dropped by 45 to 4,982.
University officials set a 7 a.m. Monday deadline for accepting any more applications. The official campus application deadline was May 15, but the school traditionally ignores that deadline and reviews applications until the first day of class in August.
"We were still getting them in daily," said Mary Jo Banken, head of the Missouri News Bureau.
Chancellor Brady Deaton said it was in the best interest of the incoming class to stop accepting applications.
"We want to assure that every student receives the best possible educational experience at Mizzou," Deaton said in a prepared statement.
"With the decreasing state appropriations and with our rise in enrollment, our enrollment officials started looking at issues like classroom space, hiring faculty and housing," Banken said.
The large enrollment has already prompted the university to keep open a dormitory that had been scheduled to close. And the university is contracting with Campus View and Campus Lodge apartments to provide space for another 700 students.
"We're not calling it 'off-campus'; we're calling it 'extended campus,"' Banken said.
The apartments are about two to four miles from the campus center and students will be provided with free shuttle service.
Also, popular Freshman Interest Groups will be operated at the two apartment complexes, Banken said. The complexes will be known as Mizzou Quads at Campus View and Tiger Diggs at Campus Lodge.
University officials attribute the rise in applications to successful student recruitment practices, the academic reputation of the university, improvement in campus facilities and grounds, and increased recognition of Missouri because the football team's success last year.
Banken said any applications already received by the university and those in the computer system still will be evaluated.
"It those students qualify for admission, they will be accepted," she said.
STLtoday - Mizzou stops taking applications