What are some reasons you guys believe college admissions should/should not be competitive in present day?
As a practical matter, if the school does not have the capacity to enroll all interested students who meet whatever its base qualifications are, then it has to select who can enroll by some means.
There is no way for the process not to be competitive. There are too many applicants for it not to be. There has to be some type of competition even it were to take the first x number of applicants. Some would get in and some would not.
The school also needs to assure itself of a certain number of students each year in order to turn a profit. That means accepting students who did well in high school and can be assumed likely to remain in college all four years. If the school accepted any student into the chem program for example, those who were C students in high school might be likely to fail or drop out, taking a chunk of tuition money with them. So the school needs the majority of students to be academically capable. And financially capable as well.
Have you taken HS Economics? Supply and demand. End of essay. It’s akin to saying should playing for Major League Baseball or the NFL or NBA be competitive or not.
If you’re mining for research for a class paper, I’d say switch the subject.
Well top schools only have 2000 seats each and over 40000 kids want those seats so competition is inevitable.
Undesirable colleges often have an open door.
Yes, they should be, as noted by previous posters.
No, you shouldn’t be using this information for your English assignment.