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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]clearly the demand for top 50 colleges is there. why not admit more in fields like STEM? colleges would get oos tuition $$ and kids an opportunity that they might have just missed? [/quote] You should listen to the freakonomics series on college admissions. The gist is that Ivy and other top schools increased their class sizes from the 1960s through the 1990s and then stopped. Now, some of this was admitting women, but that largely happened in the late 1960s. In the 1990s, they made a decision they wanted to increase their cache and become more exclusive. Many of these schools had 30% - 50% admission rates back then. This contrasts with say Canada which views a low acceptance rate as a negative. If a school is too “popular”, they figure out a way to make it larger. Those schools are all public…but an interesting approach.[/quote] I believe this switch for US colleges coincides with an emphasis on schools wanting to accept a small share of applicants because that helps [b]their US News rankings[/b].[/quote] Utterly false for top old schools and Ivies who have stayed the course. A "small share of applicants" does nothing for USNWR ratings,[/quote]
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