Here's the line that stood out to me: more than three-quarters of students attend nonselective colleges, which admit at least half of their applicants. No one

Here's the line that stood out to me: more than three-quarters of students attend nonselective colleges, which admit at least half of their applicants. No one knows for sure how good these colleges are at their core job of educating students. It's important not just because of educational outcomes, but also because the tuition/cost discussion is often dominated by selective colleges, and/or colleges with national or international brands. When it comes to those colleges, that's when we start hearing about the "arms race" described in the article (and amusingly highlighted in a Malcolm Gladwell podcast that was heavily criticized: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/18/malcolm-gladwell-sets-debate-over-whether-good-campus-food-prevents-more-aid-low https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/18/malcolm-gladw...). Another cost that gets brought up: all of the administrators who apparently didn't exist in large numbers decades ago. And, I have also heard the theory that expensive liberal arts degrees are basically subsidizing STEM research, especially now that federal research grants are harder to come by. But again, these issues seem to be the domain of the selective colleges. What's going on at the nonselective colleges -- community colleges, lower-ranked liberal arts colleges, and the for-profit and online colleges -- needs more attention.