…Harvard admitted anyone who was fluent in Latin and Greek.
(Harvard is by far the best-documented college throughout most of this period, so I’ll be focusing on them. A Harvard-Centric History Of College Admissionsįor the first two centuries of American academia, there was no competition to get into college. – Is freaking out about college admissions the correct course of action?ġ.
– Is academia really more competitive now than in the past? On what time scale? At what levels of academia? Why is this happening? Will it stop? – How did we get to this point? Have college admissions always been a big deal? Did George Washington have to freak out about getting into a good college? What about FDR? If not, why not? I want to look into this further and investigate questions like: Harvard keeps building more dorms and hiring more professors, so there are the same number of Harvard spots per American today as there were ten years ago, twenty years ago, and all the way back to the 1800s: (in fact, since the birth rate is declining, this means the absolute number of college-goers is going down). If you’ve seen graphs that suggest the opposite, they were probably graphs of the total number of Americans with college degrees, which only proves that more people are getting degrees today than in the 1940s or whenever it was that the oldest generation still alive went to college. The college attendance rate is the same today as it was in 2005. The stories I hear about this usually focus on how more people are going to college today than ever, but there’s still only one Harvard, so there’s increasing competition for the same number of spots. But my mother just retired from teaching at a very similar school, and she says nowadays the same demographic of students would kill to get into a UC school, and many of them can’t even get into Cal States. The idea of going to Cal State (California’s middle- and lower- tier colleges) felt like some kind of colossal failure.
Most of the kids in my class wanted to go to famous Ivy League universities, and considered University of California colleges their “safety schools”. In 2002, I was a senior at a California high school in a good neighborhood. This matches my impression of “facts on the ground”. But if you are aiming for a competitive school – not just Harvard and Yale, but anywhere in the top few hundred institutions – the competition is getting harder. We shouldn’t exaggerate the problem: three-quarters of US students go to non-selective colleges that accept most applicants, and there are more than enough of these for everyone. The second graph shows that the decreases were mostly at very selective schools, and the increases were mostly at less selective schools. The first graph shows that admission rates have decreased at 53% of colleges, and increased at only 31%. Their link to the report doesn’t work, so I can’t tell if this was ever true.
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While the Center plans to update the information in the next few years to reflect the past decade of applicants, students with the same SAT and GPA in the 90’s basically have an equal probability of getting into a similarly selective college today. But “beneath the headlines and urban legends,” Jim Hull, senior policy analyst at the National School Board Association’s Center for Public Education, says their 2010 report shows that it was no more difficult for most students to get into college in 2004 than it was in 1992. If schools that were once considered “safeties” now have admissions rates as low as 20 or 30 percent, it appears tougher to get into college every spring. For example, from The Atlantic, Is College Really Harder To Get Into Than It Used To Be?: Some people have dismissed the problem, saying that a misplaced focus on Harvard and Yale ignores that most colleges are easier to get into than ever. The pressure of getting into a good university may even be leading to suicides at elite high schools. Acceptance rates at top colleges have declined by about half over the past decade or so, raising concern about intensifying academic competition.
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