<p>^ Reed’s latest Common Data Set says the acceptance rate was 43%.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/cds/cds1011/cdssecc201011.html[/url]”>http://www.reed.edu/ir/cds/cds1011/cdssecc201011.html</a></p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Not a thread about … today. It’s about the time the hippies ruled the land. Well, come to think about it, in some places, they still do. :)</p>
<p>Whoops, sorry, I should pay better attention!</p>
<p>I think the other thing that has changed greatly since Cass-Birnbaum last published is the whole concept of what constitutes a “financial safety”. Families earning $150,000 (or, the equivalent of a $36,000 salary forty years ago), almost certainly require financial aid nowadays, no matter where they apply, and the number of colleges that will meet “full-need” are probably the same colleges that were “Most Competitive” forty years ago. The bottom line: there’s even more heavy demand for pretty much the same available financial aid bucks.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Considering that the bulk of college students attend community colleges or local non-flagship state universities, it is likely that many students are attending colleges which a family of $150,000 income should be able to pay full list price.</p>
<p>However, $150,000 income is probably well over the 90th percentile, so the affordability question even at a local non-flagship state university impacts many families in middle or lower income ranges.</p>
<p>^^understood. I meant competitive four-year colleges.</p>
<p>Boy, thanks for the trip down memory lane. As to Stanford in the 70s, it felt like 50% Californians since they tried to room the Californians with non-Californians freshman year. At least, that is how our dorm worked out. I only applied to two schools–Stanford and UCSB. In those days you applied to the UC system as a whole and ranked your schools in order of preference. Berkeley seemed too radical and big, hence UCSB as my first choice. </p>
<p>As for money–I recently found something that indicated tuition was $3300 (and my California state scholarship paid for $2800 of that). My older son’s tuition was ten times that at Stanford a few years ago. </p>
<p>I was just talking last night with some girlfriends about the differences in colleges. My friend remembered attending a summer program at Northwestern in 1972 that separated the men and women and had a curfew of midnight, at which time you were locked out of your dorm. In 1974, my freshman dorm at Stanford was completely coed–every other room boy/girl/boy/girl. When I told everyone this, they all laughed and said that that was California.</p>
<p>^In 1974 my dorm at Harvard was similarly coed. Not just California. :)</p>
<p>^^[Amazon.com:</a> The Harrad Experiment (9780879756239): Robert H. Rimmer: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/The-Harrad-Experiment-Robert-Rimmer/dp/0879756233/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_text_b]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/The-Harrad-Experiment-Robert-Rimmer/dp/0879756233/ref=pd_bxgy_mov_text_b)</p>
<p>Was at B&N this week and new edition guides are showing up–Updated Barrons and Yale Guide.</p>
<p>@mathmom–</p>
<p>It’s funny because I later went to Harvard Law and the dorms were coed by floor, not room (girls floor, guys floor) Maybe it was just my dorm (or my memory…)</p>
<p>@johnwesley–
I remember when that book was all the rage. I think I read it in high school. I am feeling old.</p>
<p>Now the issue has become coed bathrooms. I do remember going to school at Stanford in England. We lived at this great estate (Cliveden) and shared the bathrooms. We were on the honor system when you took a shower because the towel rack was outside the shower stalls. You kinda just said that you were coming out now and relying on everyone’s discretion. My mother came to visit for an overnight stay… needless to say she didn’t shower until she got back to her hotel in London!</p>