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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That’s exactly the issue:  these colleges are more concerned with maintaining their “experience” and cache than they are about expanding access. [/quote]

As they should be.  Why should Harvard or MIT be concerned with expanding access?  If they expanded they would loose their appeal. [b] They are not state universities, they are private universities who get to choose how they run their business. [/b] 
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They all take millions of government dollars, both directly and indirectly, so yes we get to tell them how to run their business.[/quote]

Not how it works.

[/quote] Actually it does work that way. If they want to get  research dollars from the feds. [/quote]

Does their research contract with the feds say "In addition to providing us with the research info we've hired you to do for us, you also have to increase your undergraduate capacity 10% each year over the next 20 years"?  Any language like that?  I really doubt it.  And if the RFP or FOA or whatever listed that kind of thing as a requirement for competing to win the federal research dollars, I really doubt any private college would play the game. They would just not apply for the research funding if they have to deal with a restriction like that. [/quote]

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