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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by tzs on Sunday October 05, 2014 @05:50PM (#8413567)
Here are some examples, from small to large, of approximately how many openings several well known colleges have for first year students each year, and how many applicants they get. First column is number of openings. Second column is approximate number of applicants:

    200  1200 Caltech
   1100  9200 MIT
   1300 13000 Yale
   1700 18900 Harvard
   1700 17000 Stanford
   4200 18000 UC Berkeley
   7500 14700 UT Austin
Even the smallest in that list dwarfs the operations given in the article as examples of successful use of assessment centers. I wonder if anyone has the resources to do that kind of in-depth assessment of, say, Harvard applicants?
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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by xvedejas on Sunday October 05, 2014 @07:33PM (#8413768)
Caltech gets over 5000 applicants each year* for nominally 235 openings. Where are your numbers coming from?

* http://collegeadmissions100.com/caltech-admission-stats/

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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by tzs on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:30PM (#8413890)
The first column is rounded. My data source (Forbes [1]) had 231 for Caltech class size, which I rounded to 200. It's also a few years old.

I simply botched the second column. The second column should be relabeled "A Number Smaller Than The Number Of Applicants, Probably By A Factor of 1.2 to 4". :-)

It was calculated from the class size and the acceptance rate. I forgot that I needed to also take a look at the percentage of the admitted who enrolled, since many people are admitted to multiple schools so not all admitted to a given school enroll.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/94/opinions_college08_Ameri...

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Re:Throw Out the College Application System by Terr_ on Sunday October 05, 2014 @09:05PM (#8413954)
It's important to remember that applications will always outnumber prospective-students... Because people make more than one to different schools.

So it's not quite as hectic as the numbers initially imply.

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