What are your opinions on the rejection of so many applicants to colleges this year??

Question

Most of the prestigious colleges have hit the record with rejection letters. Yale has sent out thousands of rejection letters, Harvard has done the same rejecting fully qualified applicants. John Hopkins has sent out more than 20,000!! rejection letters to most qualified students. I myself have gotten rejected to 2 colleges one of them George Mason and VCU the only ones Iv applied to. I think colleges are getting more difficult to get in to and they have really pushed up their standards because of the large applicant pool of incoming freshmen and they are rejecting even the most academically qualified candidates. What is your opinion on this do you support the actions of colleges? Why? If not then Why?

Answer 1

If you have 500 spots and you get 1000 applications you have to send 500 rejection letters no matter how qualified those applicants are.
People need to understand that academics are only a part of the college application, you also need extra curriculars and volunteer work....or something else that makes you stand out above and beyond all those kids who also received a 4.0.
I believe the reason that high GPA's have become so prevalent in high schools is because we don't challenge our students enough. When you have 25 Valedictorians in a class of 150 you know you are doing something wrong (this is an example of this years tally from the high school I graduated from).

Answer 2

It's not just the most prestigious schools that are getting more competitive its all schools. I'm a senior this year and my guidance counselor says that this is the most competitive year in history for colleges. The college board statistics aren't even accurate anymore! I am a good student with a 4.0 average (out of 5.0 with honors classes), good extracurriculars and decent Sat's. I got rejected from many of the colleges I applied to. University of Delaware got 22,000 applications for only 3000 spots. They sent over 15,000 rejection letters. Many more kids are going to college than they used to and its not like there are new colleges sprouting up everywhere. No one wants to go to a new college that isn't established.

Answer 3

The population is growing but the number of schools is fairly stable. This means more students applying for the same number of spots. It is basic math. The schools have a set number of students they can accept based on dorm space, classroom space, etc. Just because thousands of students want to go there does not mean that they have the room.

For example, when I graduated from high school, my graduating class had 823 people in it. The freshman class a few years behind us had over 1000 and the trend has continued. More applicants leads to more competition so students are pushing harder and harder to be qualified.

Unless we start building more and more top universities (not going to happen), then more hopeful students will be turned down each year.

Answer 4

I hate to disagree, but no one is rejecting the most qualified applicants! That would be suicidal! On the other hand, there are far more applicants than ever before, because instead of applying to a few colleges, students are applying to dozens. Therefore, the yield of students who accept the colleges to which they are admitted has gone way down. The overall number of students who go to college continues to increase, and most respected colleges are growing, rather than shrinking. I'm sorry that you didn't get into the colleges of your choice, but I don't believe that colleges have suddenly decided not to admit most qualified students.

Answer 5

It has been a while since I went to uni but I remember being just dazed by the way the numbers seriously dwindled in the upper classes. Freshman classes were usually taught in huge auditoriums to accomodate so many. My senior year alot of my classes had 30 people in them.
There is a glut of incoming freshmen who just simply don't make it. By sophmore year half of them are just gone.
So I recommend to anyone having trouble getting in to just go to a community college for a little bit, make really good GPA, and then fill out an application for transfer. The application process for students transferring in from another college is usually handled differently. And you can squeeze into the empty seats your soph or junior year after all the other people who got in ahead of you bomb out.

Don't just give up and not go to college because a big university denies you. Go to a smaller lesser known one in the mean time, or just a community college, and take some base courses. Transfer applications are handled alot differently and it is easier to get in that way.

Answer 6

i'm no longer able to relatively think of why you probably did no longer keep music of your very own application technique. it variety of feels which you submitted the appliance, or thought you had, yet made no attempt to make helpful that every physique components had arrived. Did you ask for attempt rankings to be submitted? on your college and instructors to deliver transcript information and innovations? by fact I even have trouble believing that every physique of that would have been lost. And definite, in case you utilized and despatched each little thing, then of direction the college had to make it easier to comprehend their determination one way or yet another. it relatively is well-known. Oh, and did you deliver a examine for the appliance fee? replaced into it cashed? here is one ingredient that concerns me: "especially ranked inner maximum faculties" often do no longer settle for purposes specifically for the spring semester. the student applies for fall, and it in specific cases happens that the college will say, "we gained't admit you for fall, yet we are able to offer you a place commencing with the spring semester." Did this college specifically state that it may settle for purposes for spring 2010? If no longer, your application could be in some style of retaining pool. you should call the admissions place of work and attempt to determine what occurred to it. in the experience that your examine replaced into cashed, you should indicate that, yet i does no longer carry out any desire for a return of the cost, particularly if it seems which you probably did something incorrect.

Answer 7

This is a vey interesting topic. I work in residence life at a small college and we always want less students because we don't have the spaces to house them all!!

Generally speaking, many colleges are growing too big, too fast and (in my college) we just don't have the resources to keep the quality of the students experience at the level it should be if they admit any more students.

Answer 8

The answer is easy, other than academics, universities look for athletes and minorites. Altheletes make money for the school and more minorities means more gov assistance for that school. Schools have gone away from being there for education as much as a winning sports program and being politically correct. Means if you dont play sports or are not a minority then you already have everything.

Answer 9

There are only so many spaces. You can't be upset at a school of 12,000 undergrads rejecting tens of thousands of high school seniors.

Doesn't matter how qualified you think you are, they can choose who ever the hell they want to, but it is by no means their fault for having so many applicants.

Answer 10

I think that it is good in some ways. If colleges are getting harder to get into people will work harder in school thus making our country smarter, but it is unfortunate that people in high school do not relixe the importance of studying at a high level if they do want to get into an excellent college. I myself am striving to get into Princeton and what you said doesnt make me feel very good, what it comes down to is I think people need to say these things to make people work harder to become smarter and get into top schools. Harvard and John Hopkins are top schools and they should allow more people in just because they have so many applicants What it comes down to those that deserve to get in should get in