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[quote=Anonymous]Even if expanding school size did nothing to diminish a school's prestige, some of the benefits of a school that people are chasing would go away if they admitted too many students.

Employers don't want to hire too many of their new students from the same school, so the hiring percentage from the school at plum jobs would drop

Student opportunities to do research would be limited because an expansion of school size wouldn't necessarily increase the amount of research grants and projects at the school

Students would have a more difficult time taking classes with the most popular faculty members and the new faculty may not be able to establish their research reputations if they have to pick up more classes (plus, they may not be as good teachers for awhile)

The benefits of networking would be weakened because the alumni in top positions would not be able to help as high a percentage of the students

There might be a fight for space on campus because there would be a lag before more buildings could be built due to financial/development/environmental restrictions or because certain historic buildings could not be expanded due to conservation restrictions

Services provided to students might suffer because it is difficult to hire new staff in that area or location.

Alumni might be hurt in their second job searches (or grad program applications) because the market would be flooded with more graduates from the school

In other words, you're assuming a static system when the change you're suggesting produces will effect the system and potentially make it less desirable.

Could some of these issues be solved with more money?  Maybe (although there would be a time lag where your kid might be the one to live in a triple meant to be a double, have trouble getting the classes they want with the top professor or need for their major, get shut out in career services because of the high demand and not be able to get recs from top faculty, have trouble finding study space or gym space), but there's really no incentive other than altruism for a private school to hurt its product voluntarily and existing and graduated students would fight against it.  [/quote]

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