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There are exceptions. Applications to top universities are booming, as employers recognize these graduates will become our society's future innovators and leade
by johnohara 13y ago
There are exceptions. Applications to top universities are booming, as employers recognize these graduates will become our society's future innovators and leaders.
How strong is the evidence to support this statement?
- bluedino 13y agoWhich statement, the increase in applications to top universities or the employers recognizing they are the cream of the crop? https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/freshman-applications-increase-dramatically/ https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/12/freshman-applicat...
- j2kun 13y agoThe latter, of course.
- the_watcher 13y agoAs a UCLA grad, I can tell you that for something like the past 8 years UCLA has set a new record for undergraduate applications to a college. They get over 100K applicants a year now, and when I applied in 2006, they had just been the first school to receive 50K applicants.
- cafard 13y agoI don't doubt that applications to top universities are booming. Kids routinely apply to a dozen schools these days. Employers might well figure that the kids they hire of these schools are better prepared. They might also find it a way to hire their own or their friends' children.