<p>Toughyear: the issues you bring forth are very complex. But this statement “What happens when the number grows to 100,000 or more?” puzzles me.</p>
<p>It’s said as if the solution was to admit more students (in order to raise the admit rate). But how is this possible? There are physical limits to each class. There are plans to expand the school but that reaches near a billion dollars to enact (see Yale’s plan to expand for more detail). All the while, HYP’s star won’t shine any less and more and more kids will apply – and the admit rate will still creep lower.</p>
<p>“When do minuscule acceptance rates stop being something to boast about and start becoming signs of archaic, insulated, overly wealthy institutions that are badly out of step with their times?”</p>
<p>To me, they are indicative of how much “name brand” shopping in higher education is sweeping across the world.</p>