why do universities not admit more students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what part of "there are only so many slots for the top students" - do you not understand? Are you not a top applicant, and therefore, begrudging those who are?

The question is why there are so few slots. There are more students now than there were 20, 40, 80 years ago, at the same academic caliber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what part of "there are only so many slots for the top students" - do you not understand? Are you not a top applicant, and therefore, begrudging those who are?

The question is why there are so few slots. There are more students now than there were 20, 40, 80 years ago, at the same academic caliber.

As explained in numerous posts above, physical facilities have limits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:clearly the demand for top 50 colleges is there. why not admit more in fields like STEM?

colleges would get oos tuition $$ and kids an opportunity that they might have just missed?

Don't you mean "why don't universities admit more students".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what part of "there are only so many slots for the top students" - do you not understand? Are you not a top applicant, and therefore, begrudging those who are?

The question is why there are so few slots. There are more students now than there were 20, 40, 80 years ago, at the same academic caliber.

There is not enough space. It is not so difficult to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what part of "there are only so many slots for the top students" - do you not understand? Are you not a top applicant, and therefore, begrudging those who are?

The question is why there are so few slots. There are more students now than there were 20, 40, 80 years ago, at the same academic caliber.

As explained in numerous posts above, physical facilities have limits.

+1

OP is dense.

[Anonymous]

Gotta love the northeastern war that starts on almost every post. I love the person that assumes that every post that has anything negative to say is always the same person.

[Anonymous]

“I'm a Harvard grad. Traditionally the freshmen are housed in Harvard Yard. There are only so many rooms. “

My apologies. I forgot that Harvard is the only college on earth, & that there is a Massachusetts law that requires college students to live on campus. But hey, congrats on that Harvard Extension degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I'm a Harvard grad. Traditionally the freshmen are housed in Harvard Yard. There are only so many rooms. “

My apologies. I forgot that Harvard is the only college on earth, & that there is a Massachusetts law that requires college students to live on campus. But hey, congrats on that Harvard Extension degree.

As explained by some other PP, off campus housing is limited, as a practical matter, in expensive, dense urban areas, before even getting to the NIMBY issues.

[Anonymous]

“You'd also need more professors, more TAs, etc “

I get it! I get it! There is a critical shortage of scholars. Everybody knows that. That’s why every freshly minted PhD strolls right into a tenure-track position. And why you never run into a PhD who’s having trouble finding full-time work. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“You'd also need more professors, more TAs, etc “

I get it! I get it! There is a critical shortage of scholars. Everybody knows that. That’s why every freshly minted PhD strolls right into a tenure-track position. And why you never run into a PhD who’s having trouble finding full-time work. Sorry!

+1. It’s amazing what people can believe when they are motivated to do so.

[Anonymous]

Yes and on the subject, why don't restaurants I want to eat in just add more tables? And when there is traffic why not make the road wider? And make more seats on the plane so I don't have to connect in Atlanta. And why doesn't Taylor Swift just have the stadium enlarged so we can all have tickets? And can't they just grow more rice? I mean is it that hard? There's a global rice shortage you know.

[Anonymous]

Many top schools have smaller classes, more writing intensive work, less teaching from TAs, etc.. that require a lot more professor time. That is the attraction to that type of academic experience. For example I never had a multiple choice test in my undergrad. You could not replicate that if you doubled or tripled the size of the school. It's not hoarding resources the type of education isn't possible with more students

[Anonymous]

If airlines were run by college presidents they would only fly during daylight hours m-f, 8 months out of the year. The rest of the time the planes would be sitting there getting rusty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I'm a Harvard grad. Traditionally the freshmen are housed in Harvard Yard. There are only so many rooms. “

My apologies. I forgot that Harvard is the only college on earth, & that there is a Massachusetts law that requires college students to live on campus. But hey, congrats on that Harvard Extension degree.

As explained by some other PP, off campus housing is limited, as a practical matter, in expensive, dense urban areas, before even getting to the NIMBY issues.

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Also all Harvard first years live in the Yard until they pick one if the houses to live in for the next three years. Cambridge is so expensive -and the House system usually so attractive -that few move off campus. I lived all three years in Harvard Law dorms - I could not have afforded to move off campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:clearly the demand for top 50 colleges is there. why not admit more in fields like STEM?

colleges would get oos tuition $$ and kids an opportunity that they might have just missed?

Because we are not China.

Why not?

China is not something everyplace aspires to be, OP, including the U.S. If you don't know this, I do not know what to tell you. China is a third world country (or whatever the PC expression might be today), and there is growing disparity in classes, such that there will soon be only two classes in the U.S., very soon.

There is also no caste system in the U.S. (unlike many Middle Eastern countries), and we prefer that.

If you like China so much, and they are so great at what they do (hint: they are not) why stay in the U.S.?

There is definitely a caste system. The Dalit Indians here would disagree with you.

Plus black / white is a caste system. Read CASTE, the book.

Not in CHINA!