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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]in canada, but consider mcgill - straightforward admissions by numbers. [/quote]
All Canadian schools do this.[/quote]
almost all colleges globally do this.[/quote]

Yes, the US's admissions process is more about societal engineering than academic qualifications.[/quote]

Most U.S. colleges are significantly smaller than schools abroad, which tend to have space for anyone who is qualified. If you are only accepting a class of 500, you are going to have to reject thousands of otherwise qualified applicants. What do you suggest the 4,000+ colleges each do  -- only accept the same 500 perfect-score kids?

McGill: 39,000 students
Oxford and Cambridge: 48,595 between them
The top 10 Universities in France each have between 23K and 72K students (except 1)

And all of these countries have significantly smaller populations than the U.S. which has about 300 million more people and lets anyone apply to college. Of course the process has to be different.[/quote]

I don’t understand this comment.

Like 3900 US colleges have acceptance rates over 75% and 3800 over 90%.

The other countries have larger colleges, but dramatically fewer.

Also, private colleges are rare to non-existent internationally…none of the top international colleges are private.[/quote]

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