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It's been a couple years since I pulled the numbers, but here's a chart of the undergraduate admission rates for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford for class years 2004
by teuobk 18y ago
It's been a couple years since I pulled the numbers, but here's a chart of the undergraduate admission rates for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford for class years 2004-2011:
http://www.keacher.com/files/undergrad-admissions.png http://www.keacher.com/files/undergrad-admissions.png
As you can see, the trend is nothing new. The only question is: where will it end?
Updated: I added the data for the two most recent years:
http://www.keacher.com/files/dir3/undergrad-admissions-rev2.png http://www.keacher.com/files/dir3/undergrad-admissions-rev2....
- awad 18y agoI don't think in the foreseeable future. tokenadult brings up some very good points regarding the rising number of applications. Even if domestic student class sizes were to remain flat (which they won't, as class sizes are getting larger by the year), many foreign students (esp from India and China) of the current generation are now for the first time able to apply to college in the United States.
- redrobot5050 18y agoAnd the follow up might be that more people applying to Harvard (and other good schools) even if they're not really qualified for the schools (but they think they are). America's entitlement problem (and the "we're all winners attitude" some schools teach early on) could lead to a serious education disparity. Public universities, like the one I'm currently attending for my master's, has something like a 90% acceptance rate (and a high wash out rate, as freshmen sometimes learns that college isn't all kegstands and tail gates) whereas Harvard only takes the 93rd percentile...