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TLDR; The admissions are heavily affected if students expressed need for financial aid. The OP worked at two schools, one that had little endowment liberal arts
by sytelus 8y ago
TLDR; The admissions are heavily affected if students expressed need for financial aid. The OP worked at two schools, one that had little endowment liberal arts college not requiring SATs. This one doesn't surprise me. The other one is state college with 75% acceptance rate for in-state students. This one doesn't seem like problematic. OP isn't clear which school he/she is accusing of.
Overall, its well known fact that rich people's kid can chose great college as they prefer. Everything from Stanford to Harvard have seats reserved for donors.
- yardie 8y agoI have friends that worked in admissions office of a state university. Normally, admissions rate will be high for in-state students because college-prep would have started long before application time. And through local alumni, teachers, and counselors students will have a good idea which state schools they’ll be accepted into. But out of state and international admissions is completely different. When state budget cuts roll down that admission rate jumps from 10-15% to 25% and up. And if you can pay full freight that rate jumps to 100%. When I found that out I was less shocked than I thought I would be. It just confirmed thoughts that I observed but failed to see.