"The college admissions season is coming to a close and once again, the results demonstrate the growing divide in American higher education between the haves and have-nots.
The ‘have schools’ are selective colleges — those that accept fewer than 50 percent of applicants. Although they enroll only 20 percent of the 17.5 million undergraduates in U.S. higher education, they account for more than one-third of all college applications. Within that group is a sliver of super-selective colleges that accept fewer than 20 percent of applicants, and in some cases fewer than 10 percent." …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/04/06/the-higher-education-divide-the-haves-keep-getting-richer-other-schools-not-so-much/?utm_term=.41f7331f7fcb
@Dave_Berry
As Groucho once said-
“I don’t care to belong to any club that would have me as a member”
@Dave_Berry - The article cites the USNews rankings as source material for some of its statistics without mentioning that they were also a major factor in the very phenomenon they’re writing about. Those thousands of applications to places no one had ever heard of before 1988 didn’t just arrive by word-of-mouth; USNews did everything but erect a big neon sign saying, “Go To These Schools” in every waiting room in the country. .
@circuitrider
Yes, those lists have become the tail wagging the dog.
@Dave_Berry
I couldn’t access the article as I am not a subscriber to the Washington post. Did it mention the divide in endowment dollars?
The divide in haves and have nots there might be even more stark.