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[quote=Anonymous]Colleges have intentionally created a lot of this mess. They've put more money into marketing and admissions management experts than into paying their own professors. All with the intention of driving up applications and yield while driving down acceptance rates. They do this to boost their own ratings and prestige. And it means more pressure to apply ED, more pressure to apply to more schools, and the advent of vehicles that are purely designed to manipulate school stats, like the freshman year abroad programs, that have questionable benefits to students. They've raised tuition at rates that far outstrip inflation, making the investment in college higher stakes for families. All of this would be less egregious if colleges were for-profit institutions. But as non-profits that accept lots of our taxpayer dollars, their motives should be more altruistic. [/quote]
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