College applications gone wild
NOVEMBER 7, 2010 BY LEAVE A COMMENT
College applications have gone wild, reports the New York Times. Selective colleges urge students to apply, streamline the online application and then brag about how few students are admitted.
Stanford received a record 32,022 applications from students it called “simply amazing,” and accepted 7 percent of them. Brown saw an unprecedented 30,135 applicants, who left the admissions staff “deeply impressed and at times awed.” Nine percent were admitted.
The biggest boast came from the University of California, Los Angeles. In
