Statistics, not Hype, About College Admissions

<p>De-Hyping College Admissions (or Trying to, Anyway): Perceptions aside, students apply to fewer colleges than they plan to, and the vast majority of applicants are accepted at their top choice, a new study shows:
[De-Hyping</a> College Admissions (or Trying to, Anyway) :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/13/admissions]De-Hyping”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/13/admissions)</p>

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<p>Except that a vast majority of college applicants in this country are not interested in Ivy League, top LACs, top nat’l univs the way the vast majority of posters on this site are.</p>

<p>saw this article yesterday and found it very interesting…not exactly appropriate for the CC crowd, but for the rest of us, a somewhat sigh of relief…</p>