From the News You Can Use Archives 04/10/07

More and More Students Rejected by Colleges
By Ian Crawford, Web Communications Editor

More students are applying to more colleges and getting more rejection letters. But students are also being more selective in their choice, looking beyond the top universities.

According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, a number of top-tier state schools and smaller liberal arts colleges say they received more applications this year from well-qualified students and so have to write a lot more rejection letters.

       Admission Rates of Some U.S. Colleges

Harvard University	9 percent
Princeton University	10 percent
Yale University	10 percent
Stanford University	10 percent
University of Pennsylvania	15 percent
Dartmouth College	15 percent
Pomona College	16 percent
Williams College	17 percent
Georgetown University	20 percent
Cornell University	21 percent

There are three main reasons for the rise in applications:

• Population trends: The number of students graduating from high school has risen each year since the 1995-96 school year, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The U.S. Department of Education predicts that the trend will continue until at least 2013.
• Growth in international students.
• Growing use of the Common Application: a form that can be completed online and sent to a number of admissions offices far more easily than paper-based applications. More than 300 schools accept it.

High school counselors are now advising their students not to raise their sights too high, but to look instead at schools where they have a good shot of getting in.

The competition is so keen for acceptance that high school counselors are encouraging high schoolers to start looking at colleges in their sophomore year rather than in the spring of their senior year.

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Colleges Reject Record Numbers — The Wall Street Journal

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Story posted April 10, 2007.

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