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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capacity constraints [/quote]

Mostly artificial ones though.   Who gripes most about increasing the student population of elite private universities?   Alumni.  That’s who.  Protecting their exclusive club.  Harvard and Yale etc have more than enough endowment to acquire and build on more space.  Stanford has more than 8,000 acres, for about 7,000 undergrads.  Whatever capacity constraints they claim to have ring pretty hollow to me. [/quote]

You are not realistic and/or you know nothing about U.S. schools and even less about endowments. That is simply not how it works, not do the colleges owe anyone more seats.  Anyone. In the U.S., we do not cover every square inch of acreage with humans. It is not sanitary, healthy, productive, or desirable. We do not aspire to have a two class society.

No matter how much you insist, or pitch a tantrum. [/quote]

First of all, I never said anything about people being entitled or compelling universities to do anything.  Nor does your statement about a 2 class society exist.  I don’t want elite colleges and then a bunch of lousy ones.

Frankly, I happen to believe what you do at colleges matter a lot more than where you go. That aside, you cannot deny the demand for the top colleges has grown exponentially compared to the number of seats available (which has grown modestly if at all). A lot of this comes from parents and certain achievement-oriented cohorts that place a premium on being with what they perceive as “the best of the best”.

All I was saying  before your vitriolic spew was that IF elite colleges had the will to expand access, the vast majority of them COULD do so, at least some. Might it come with some growing pains and challenges?   Sure.  Most worthwhile things take some ingenuity and problem solving.

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