Re:The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst
by jlarocco on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:27PM
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It's not really about high end schools. Harvard, Yale, and MIT can turn down anybody they want because they have a million overly qualified candidates. They can be selective and still fill their all of classes ten times over.
But if tiny community colleges start turning people away when they have half empty classrooms, there will be a lot of negative press.
Re:The Student Loan Bubble is Starting To Burst
by superuser2 on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:47PM
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But it isn't about tiny community colleges, it's about for-profit schools, right?
They could probably figure out how to sell it as "raising the bar," talk about providing a more individualized education, ride the negative press as actually increasing the value of their degrees, etc.
No it wouldn't. Admission to selective schools isn't based on criteria, it's competitive among the other applicants in the pool for a limited number of slots. Counselors routinely state that the vast majority of their applicants are academically qualified; students are selected based on interestingness (communicated through essays & recommendations), extracurricular talents, race, gender, and other factors. Sometimes even virtuosos are rejected because there are already enough virtuosos with that particular talent in the university.
As far as I know, it is only very low-end schools in the US that run admission solely off of standards.