-20%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants fell 20% between 2021 and 2024 (84 → 67).
New York · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants
Ardsley, New York. 35 undergraduate students. 3 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.7% → 0.0%).
+11%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants rose 11% between 2017 and 2020 ($3.8k → $4.2k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New York
Each tile compares this institution to the New York median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
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New York median $48,917$31,921
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry100.0%
New York median 64.2%$4,097+19% · '15→'20
At program completion35-48% · '15→'24
latest IPEDS93.5%+170% · '16→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+170%
Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants · retention rose
37.0% → 100.0%
-31%
Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants · undergrad enrollment fell
128 → 67
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
2 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$55,964
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $19,154
- HS-only baseline · NY
- $40,100
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 51
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in New York
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants graduates earn $X” — not “Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Westchester School for Medical & Dental Assistants caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.