Is this a new trend?

tigerdad
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:19:42 +0000

I’m fairly new to the world of BS. My daughter is a third year at a HADES school. She loves it. My son applied with similar qualifications and was w/l to most of the schools, even her’s.

Personally, I feel the high rate of applications of very qualified candidates is a function of the economy and the realization on the part of many parents/students to hold on to upper middle class status will require more than it did before. A college education is now required to merely enter the middle class. This puts a bottom up pressure on BS applications. They are seen as a significant leg-up in the increasingly competitive world.