Notes Toward a Master’s Thesis in Sociology of Higher Education

Somebody should look to see if there’s a correlation between the weather on the days of campus visits and the number of prospective students who apply/ enroll at a given school.

We had pretty decent weather– cool but seasonal, sunny in the morning, clouding over in the afternoon– for today’s Open House. Last year, we had dreary rain at least one of the Open House days. I’d like to think that something as random and trivial as the weather wouldn’t really influence a high school student’s college decision, but then, I’ve heard stupider things…