I'm not the individual who posted that, but I was also told this info on my interview day. It was stated by one of the admissions personnel after the financial aid presentation, and my group was told that they intend to send out 200-250 acceptances this year.
This is a very common practice; all schools over-accept because they know that not everyone who receives an offer will end up matriculating. They have a good idea of how many acceptances to send out based on what the trend has been for previous classes (and probably since TCMC is newer, they've also looked at what the general trends are at similar schools). This means that in previous years, the ratio of all acceptees to actual matriculants was about 2:1 or 2.5:1, and they expect that ratio to remain relatively constant this year. So, last year when they wanted an incoming class of ~70, they probably sent out 140 to 175 acceptances with the expectation that only 40-50% would actually accept the admissions offers and matriculate. Since they're going to be increasing the incoming class size, they've increased the number of acceptances accordingly this year to fit that 2:1 or 2.5:1 ratio. There's always the possibility that more students will accept their offers of admission than the school expects, leading to a larger than desired class size. This actually happened last year at Penn State. I'm sure each school handles it differently, but students at Penn State were given the option of deferring a year with some kind of scholarship offer as enticement to do so. However, I'd say that in general, schools have a very good idea of what to expect and err on the conservative side when sending out acceptances to avoid those kinds of situations, especially since if not enough students accept their admissions offers, they can always take people off of waitlists.
Ah, my bad. Yeah, hopefully it's closer to 250.
