Private College Admissions Bubble

tokenadult
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:23:17 +0000

Edmund Fiske’s elite 13 universities and 12 liberal arts colleges



Which universities and colleges are those? I tried the obvious Google search, but I didn’t come up with a list.

You have an interesting idea, that if people just don’t have the money, they will stop paying for elite colleges. I think, however, that there is enough money even in a bad economy among some families, and enough desire for expensive private education among those families, to keep quite a few private colleges in business even at very high list prices. The high-list-price market segmentation strategy has worked well for Bennington College

[Features : Radar Online](http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/09/the_nine_worst_colleges_in_america_part_ii.php)

[Top 10 Most Expensive Colleges | 7 | CNNMoney](Top 10 Most Expensive Colleges | 7 | CNNMoney)

for at least three decades now. There is a market for expensive private colleges.