College Search Process......Then and Now

ucbalumnus
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:56:58 +0000

College admissions selectivity was likely pretty low from the late 1960s to the early 1980s (when today’s parents went to college, if they went), after the expansion of universities. However, universities have not expanded as much since then, but the number of students going to college has increased considerably due to population growth.

[Projections of Education Statistics to 2021 - Section 5. Enrollment in Postsecondary Degree-Granting Institutions: Total Enrollment](http://nces.ed.gov/programs/projections/projections2021/sec5b.asp) indicates that the number of students in college has gone up 46% since 1996.