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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that the OP is saying is that high stat kids have worked really hard but not all of them were given chances to stand out and therefore, their chances are lower at schools that would consider high stat kids. Lower stat kids won’t bother to aim for high stat schools.

Now people, you keep telling people to aim lower. If they do, they will wipe the merit scholarships clean and people who are lower will aim even lower. So, you should be happy that high stat kids have dreams. [/quote]

What do you think is happening now?  The high stats kids are still getting into college, just not the revered TopX they (or more likely their parents) think they are entitled to. That’s what OP was griping about.  It’s not like those kids are sitting on the sidelines or going to vocational school, they are just going to lower ranked colleges.  The real problem is that the top 25/30 universities have added a total of about 1000 seats for freshman over the past 30 years, but there are 180,000 more HS graduates in the top 10% of their class competing for those 1000 seats.  Frankly, it’s inexcusable that the tuition increases have not gone to increasing capacity at top colleges.  It’s artificially created scarcity.

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