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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, this is the weirdest thread.

Financial aid is not an indicator of declining "popularity." (At the college level, Ivy League schools are among the most generous in the U.S. for financial aid. I can't imagine a single person could argue with a straight face that this is a recruiting strategy to ward off declining popularity!)

Oddly, the poster screaming about "facts" doesn't believe that applications and yields at an all-time high are data points that speak to popularity. If you are going to argue about the decline in popularity of something, certainly, there has to be a measure of what is declining.

Random anecdotes are just that - anecdotes.
This is the equivalent of arguing that vanilla ice cream is less popular than chocolate because your friends all like chocolate. They can both be exceptionally popular at the same time. There are actual metrics that would indicate a decline in popularity. That's what you need to measure if you want to claim a shift as a fact.[/quote]

Nobody said a lot of the things you are arguing.

A private school with a 30% acceptance rate may seem selective, but when you understand the details, the school is probably actually operating at the margins of being able to fill their class with qualified students and stay in business.[/quote]

“Probably “?

Where are your facts?

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