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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges have intentionally created a lot of this mess.

They've put more money into marketing and admissions management experts than into paying their own professors. All with the intention of driving up applications and yield while driving down acceptance rates. They do this to boost their own ratings and prestige. And it means more pressure to apply ED, more pressure to apply to more schools, and the advent of vehicles that are purely designed to manipulate school stats, like the freshman year abroad programs, that have questionable benefits to students.

They've raised tuition at rates that far outstrip inflation, making the investment in college higher stakes for families.

All of this would be less egregious if colleges were for-profit institutions. But as non-profits that accept lots of our taxpayer dollars, their motives should be more altruistic.

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You're in a bubble of people who are focused on the most competitive colleges. Most kids aren't gunning for Chicago, the Ivies, etc. They're applying to a few schools in their region, looking at which is the best, deal, and are done.

Some people actually have fun looking at colleges with their kid because they target good schools that accept lots of kids. You can make it miserable if you only fixate on what are deemed "top" schools by status-obsessed folks. [/quote] Do you work at one of the local privates or perhaps you’re a current parent at one but I suspect you have the means to afford the outrageous price tags at most colleges. When your state university is admitting less than 50% of applicants then you have few options and no one wants to pay astronomical rates for schools with abysmal ROI.[/quote]

All states have more than one university. There is a college for everyone. Kids get out of what they put into it.[/quote]

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