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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is everyone fighting so hard to get their kids into a "top 30-ish" school?

Less than 5% of college students attend a top 50 college. About 2.4% of college students in the US attend a top 30 college. Roughly 1% attend a "top 20" college. What is the point in fighting to be such a tiny fraction of college students.

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Where is your citation for this? Top 30 nat’l universities and SLACs? [/quote]

I'd love to see a citation for this too.  Honestly, some posters just come here and spout out stats with zero citations to back them up - and then everyone is expected to just believe them.   :roll: [/quote]

I have no idea if they are accurate, but with a few thousand colleges in the U.S. they probably aren’t far off.

The bigger issue is that these numbers vastly misunderstand the college landscape. About a quarter of undergrads are not at 4-year institutions (mostly community college). Nearly a third of undergrad students at 4-year institutions are part-time. Over a quarter of college students are over the age of 24. Factor all of these out to look at just recent high school grads enrolled full time in 4-year institutions—which is the crowd OP is really referring to—and the percentages jump a good amount.

https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
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