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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why private schools limit applications. So selfish to the other kids in the top 10%.[/quote]

You know these kids can only enroll at one college each, right?  They are taking up zero spots for other applicants? Who are they hurting, exactly?

Are you seriously suggesting strong candidates cast a smaller net for themselves because you don't understand how this works?[/quote]I think if the colleges provided a better understanding of whether a candidate would be accepted, this large net approach would be wolly unnecessary.  Ie, what i suggested. A rank match system where a candidate would only be accepted to a single school[/quote]

Yes, give both the students and the colleges fewer choices.  That makes perfect sense.

Terrible idea that helps no one.

And how the heck can a college know who they will accept until they see the application?

You haven’t thought this through.  And you are not the first.
[/quote]How is it fewer choices? A student can only enroll at one college. [/quote]

Do you really need that explained to you?

Applying to fewer = fewer choices.

Accepted to only one but not guaranteed any one means you have a high likelihood of being shut out.

Colleges see few applications and build less appropriate classes.  [b]Hey Harvard, you wanted that math whiz from Nevada?  Sorry you’re getting another pianist from CT!  Got three already?  Too bad!  You are assigned by some mythical rank![/b]

I can’t believe you are seriously asking this.

If there was a better way to do this, that is the way it would be done.  None of you knows anything about it.[/quote]Again, a student getting multiple acceptances can only marticulate one. Do you seriously not understand that? SO harvard might and probably will lose the math whiz to MIT[/quote]

But the student has no guarantee they will be accepted to one. They are assigned by your mythical and unmanageable ranking system.

Do YOU seriously not understand this?

[/quote]who says its mythical and unmanageable? That is how medical residency is done
[quote]Also, colleges need to build classes.  All students are not replaceable parts.[/quote]Yet they will have multiple top schools accept the same student..... [/quote]

This isn’t medical residency, that’s a bad analogy and you know that.  And a lot of people are highly dissatisfied by that process.  People PAY A LOT for college, they will not pay for one they don’t want.

Your dumb idea helps no one, and still results in kids enrolling in one college each, as they do now.  It doesn’t magically make it easier to get in to an ivy.  The process is still burdened with stress and decisions, just before the application process and not after.

It helps no one.

How bout this:  We let kids apply where they would like to go, let the colleges accept who they want, and then let the kids and families decide where to attend and what they can pay.  What a f’n novel idea!  What is wrong with that?[/quote]

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