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Friday, April 7, 2006
It actually IS harder to get into college today!
There’s a really interesting story in today’s Washington Post that says a demographic surge in the number of college-age students and a trend that has seen high school seniors applying to more and more colleges have combined to actually make it harder to get into college this year and for years to come.
Schools are flooded in applications and are turning away even good students. Guidance counselors I know say they’ve seen kids apply for up to 25 colleges. That strikes me as a little bit insane.
These factors probably also are at making it even harder to get into college if you are a girl.
Perhaps colleges should agree on some sort of limit on the number of colleges a student can apply to per year. I’d suggest a limit of 10. I can’t think of a reason why a student would need to apply to more than that. What do you think?
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