Clearly they’re a cartel because they colluded to form their own sports league that doesn’t give athletic scholarships (that’s all the Ivy League is after all).

Clearly they’re a cartel because they colluded to form their own sports league that doesn’t give athletic scholarships (that’s all the Ivy League is after all). Jokes aside of lot of the complaints are kind of nonsense. For example, the article laments that their admitted class size doesn’t track the population. Setting aside the fact that they’re private institutions and can target whatever size they want, there’s a lot of bottlenecks to growing class sizes. Besides having to build new facilities (not just dorms but new lecture halls, especially larger lecture halls for big intro classes), these schools like to tout a student to instructor ratio. That means hiring new faculty, and these schools don’t just take anyone as faculty. A department trying to hire new professors will just wait a year if they weren’t satisfied with the crop of applications they got the previous year. They’re willing to wait to get a quality person because that person is potentially a member of the department for the rest of their career.