>Although selective schools—those that accept fewer than half of applicants—enroll only about one-fifth of U.S. undergraduates, they account for more than one-t

>Although selective schools—those that accept fewer than half of applicants—enroll only about one-fifth of U.S. undergraduates, they account for more than one-third of applications each year. Given how wide their criterion for selective is, this line alone seems to indicate to me that the constant media focus on ultra-elite schools is just a sign of a bubble of elites.