Comment Runaway Admissions Cycle (Score 1) 256
This is getting ridiculous!
High school seniors are now being encouraged to submit applications to at least 8-10 colleges, since the acceptance rates have been going down. The acceptance rates have gone down since the colleges are getting more applications. Where will this end?
Colleges have the unenviable task of trying to figure out how many of the applying students to admit, while trying to factor in how many of those will actually accept. Many of those students may not really want to attend there, but applied there out of fear of not getting in their first choice college. The ones getting rejected may actually want to go to that college, but are shut out due to the sheer numbers of other applications. The lucky ones may end up on a wait list, but being in limbo like that is hell.
Some college applications actually ask how many other colleges (and sometimes ask for names too) are being applied to by the student.
Perhaps they will start asking them to rank them too.