Should college admissions be competitive or not? Explain?

KKmama
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:10:10 +0000

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.