The College will house all students who applied on time for Fall term housing this year.
Assistant Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said there were 26 students on the waitlist in the third week of July, but all have been housed.
Beatty said the 17 students who were given provisional status on their housing assignments "will be taken care of next week" and each provisional status student who applied on time will be housed.
Last year, in the first week of August there were 204 students on the waitlist, according to Beatty.
"Enrollment in Fall term was managed better this year," Beatty said.
Beatty said the College will be at its residential capacity in the fall with 2,800 students housed in residence halls. This does not include Coed Fraternity Sorority houses, which are also near capacity.
Beatty said the new housing assignment process, instituted in the spring, did not affect waitlist levels.
Beatty said the improvement was the result of the work of the ad-hoc enrollment committee.
"Last fall, [the College] created an ad hoc enrollment committee to look for ways to manage enrollment," Beatty said. "As a result of those recommendations, there was not an overabundance of students enrolled for Fall term."
The enrollment committee released an eight-part plan with suggestions to reduce the number of students on campus in early fall, which included denying some freshmen their first choice Dartmouth Plans, moving some off-campus programs to the fall and shifting some sequence classes from fall-winter to winter-spring.
"We've tried a number of ways to limit or discourage enrollment for people who didn't need it," Bickel said.
Bickel said enrollment is "still a little high" and the College would rather not assign students provisional enrollment status.
Beatty said the Office of Residential Life is looking into whether the College should build more beds.
"Our office was asked to study future housing needs at the College," he said.
"We won't have an evaluation until sometime in the Fall term," he said.
