I am fascinated by an article I read this morning on www.boston.com covering the college admission crisis. Basically, it discussed how colleges across the country are experiencing a huge increase in applications from a year ago and have to wait list many of their applicants. Schools are saying that it is a phenomenon driven by demographics… More and more students are graduating from high school, and larger percentages are continuing to college. Many colleges say they are getting applications from more accomplished students than they could ever accept. Instead of sending an outright rejection letter they add the application to this growing wait list.

The article threw out these numbers…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has wait-listed 739 applicants, up nearly 50 percent from last year. Northeastern University has wait-listed 1,400, a 17 percent increase, while the University of Vermont has wait-listed more than 3,000, a 22 percent rise. Dartmouth will wait-list 1,500, up 15 percent.

Can you imagine how frustrating that would be? To not really know where you will be going to school in the fall? Thoughts….

So let me see if I can wrap my Midieval mind around this rather elementary fact.....if I want to go to a certain school and have 3.75 GPA and MCATS and SATS off the charts I still may not get in???

And if I do get in than I may not be able to afford the cost of school (unless I want to pay off student loans for the next 30 years)???

Uhm, ya this sounds really fair. Perhaps I can get lucky and buy a scratch ticket and win a windfall of cash!!! Of course if I do that it still wouldn't fix the problem for others, as I would probably not go to school. I'd rather sit on a beach with my buff body slurping frozen mudslides and smiling at life. This kinda reminds me of a song I began to write the other day that goes....

"Life's a game you win or lose,
Some strike gold others sing the blues
I've done a little of both
And I'm amused by life."

Maybe I should enter the American Idol song writer contest!! I've got the mad skillz.

Yes It is a crap shoot. I read a post on it this morning at http://ceomum.blogspot.com/2008/04/reje ... eague.html
Kids need to stop obsessing about these schools and explore other options.

The thing is some of these big schools have upped the financial aid and are offering many a free ride so all these poor kids are trying to grab a slice of the pie which just ain't getting any bigger.

Wow, once I have realized it is true that the waiting list has grown. Down here in Colorado our top universities are getting waiting lists as well. Some of my friends have the top grades and the best test scores and they are being pushed to major in a different area or put on the waiting list. Its harder when everyone is now realizing that they want to go to college and make a differece because they fear hardships in their future.