What does the economic downturn have to do with freshman admission rates at colleges? As prospective students weigh more heavily on cost of attendance, colleges are admitting and waitlisting more to make up for flaky students. Daniel de Vise gives insight in his Washington Post article:
A spring survey of 142 institutions by the Chronicle of Higher Education found that private colleges hedged against recession by admitting 8.7 percent more students this year than last, and public colleges admitted 3.1 percent more students. The average freshman class is growing by about 2 percent.
Full article here.
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