Admission rates

MikeSkyler
Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:53:57 +0000

The New York Times had an article on in their Education Life section a couple of weeks ago and it discussed the current college admissions rates. As most of us now, colleges are getting more selective in terms of their admissions percentage.

But is this totally true?

One person told the Times (I think it was from the University of Chicago) that the reason why admissions rates are lower now than they were five years ago is because of an increase in applications received, mainly due to the rise of the common and online application. So the admissions percentage is merely an illusion because they are still using the same criteria, and just rejecting a whole bunch of people who would have been rejected anyway.

What do you think?