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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"They choose to keep their freshman classes small."

Yet when a college with a finite campus expands with satellite options (Northeastern), we lose our minds.

Some top schools could expand if they tossed up new dorms and made classes bigger, but the experience wouldn't be the same.

If more people expanded the idea of what "elite" was, they might include more of the big state universities that definitely have room for their kid.[/quote]

[b]Yes, the experience would not/is not the same.[/b]  NEU is a good school, but most applying have no interest in attending NEU Oakland/Mills college for 4 years.  Most have much better options for them and take it.  And NEU just grows without putting infrastructure in place. 
Harvard would not be Harvard if they had 10K undergrads and they do not need to become that.  There are plenty of great schools in the USA if you stop being obsessed with attending a "T25" school.  Apply, hope you get into one, but if not have several backups to choose from, because you will likely be attending one. 
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Exactly. People here often vilify schools that don't grow bigger without thinking about how the experience as a student would be different. Bigger classes, more crowded dorms/dining halls/gyms/etc. It's especially funny with schools that are in areas with neighborhoods around them. They can't even absorb an extra 100 students, let alone the thousands it would take to get their acceptance rates out of the single digits.

We need to change our preception of "elite" and maybe just cross those off the list if they aren't realistically going to be an option.[/quote]

What neighborhoods?? [/quote]
I'm not sure what you mean, but just as an example, Boston College is surrounded by houses. They've bought land from the Archdiocese across Comm Ave from campus and other colleges. They recently bought another college's property in a neighboring town (Brookline). They already house some of the freshman on a satellite campus (Newton) and people see getting assigned there as a negative.

The Oxford campus of Emory is another example. Lets them take more students, but people definitely see it as a lesser option.[/quote]

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