College Admissions Running Amok

Editorial team Apr 11, 2014 · 1 min read
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Thought this article really captured the “zeitgeist” of college admissions today. There’s a vicious cycle at work where teens see 5% admission rates at Stanford and Harvard, and 90,000+ applicants at UCLA and start to feel it’s a crapshoot so they end up applying to more schools to hedge their bets. Of course, this just makes admission rates worse and so the cycle continues.

Where did the days of 3 applications and a typewriter go?

Click here to read the article.