Secrets of Elite College Admissions

Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions by gbronner on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:09PM (#24323730)

There's a market failure here: everyone now applies to 15-20 elite colleges, at an application cost of perhaps 1500$. Kids have no idea where they'll get in, and colleges have no idea who will attend.

Limiting applications to 8 or 10 schools would reduce the uncertainty on both sides

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Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions by oehtXRwMkIs on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:27PM (#24324791)

I think a better solution is the one where applicants get a limited number of times to mark specific applications as something they are especially interested in.

Apparently it just works out pretty well without restricting your application pool.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/05/527087730/epis...

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Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions by wrkronmiller on Sunday August 30, 2020 @09:52PM (#24327780)

There is already something called “early decision” at some US colleges, wherein you commit to attend a college if accepted.

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