Posted on 04/11/2014 7:59:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Everyone is in "shock" at the number of apps they receive, but DO THE MATH!!!
11,549 x $100 = $1,115,490
That That's a lot of scratch.So, they have to hire a few grad students at $10/hour to stack,and arrange the files..print the rejection letters, and pay the postage..90% of apps received don't survive the first cut...for whatever criteria....maybe that costs $15,000, MAX..they CLEAR well over a million...they have NO incentive to try and reduce the number they receve.
-PJ
What's the problem here?
"Selective" colleges aren't cutting back on the number of students they except.
There of course isn't a problem.
I sense the feds want to be more involved with admissions selection process and this NY Time non story is just the start.
It depends on what career you want. Law, politics, investment banking-—it’s darn near impossible to get with the top firms or to make the necessary connections to run for a major office without that Ivy League degree. Charles Murray has done an exceptional job of showing that the “superzips” that surround Washington and NYC are almost EXCLUSIVELY dominated by Ivy League degrees!
Yup, online classes for free or at low cost that deliver real college credits....it’s coming. I remember taking my Graduate Record Exams at Washington University(St Louis) and there is no reason why people who learn online should not be able take such exams for actual credit. Why does it matter where you learned something? What difference does it make?
We need a really good setup on the net and via satellite for home schoolers also.
College has become a racket in many ways.
It's the way I went through. My daughter got the full boat scholarship, only had to pay for books and food. What I saved stayed in her account made a nice down payment on her house.
The exclusivity of that ruling class is part of the problem. An incestuous orthodoxy pervades that rarefied environment, and has little resemblance to, recognition of, or use for outsiders, who ironically, make up most of the country.
Yes. Absolutely. We would be better off if even these private schools were required to take applicants selected at random.
Or better yet, if the cachet of those elitist establishments were eliminated entirely, and the "country club" more democratized.
Transfering as a junior, if you have a good CC record, is easier than trying to transfer as a sophomore. My oldest son is going to UNC-Charlotte as a junior this fall. He even expects to get a dorm room, in a “less-desirable residence hall,” even though he and his friend are both local students.
"Sometimes you've got to say, "What the f---'"
Big whoop. Go to State U instead - you’ll pay a lot less and get a generally better “education”.
“Harvard, Yale and Princeton fund 100% of financial need with grants. The other Ivies, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT provide grants for the large majority of need, with modest amount of loans and work study making up the difference.....A student from a family with an income under $150,000 will pay less out of pocket or by loans than at virtually any public or less-well-endowed private school.”
This is why. These schools are a better net value compared to overpriced public universities.
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