<p>this is for fun, and i hope it turns out interesting.
What would college be like in 2050? (hopefully everyone will use the common app by then lol. but probly not harvard lol.)
What changes to the admissions process/college in general have happened in recent decades?
will there be enough colleges for all applicants?
what about cost?
death or growth of state institutions?
more competitive?
how many sections on the SAT lol? which test will prevail (ACT, SAT, new tests? importance of tests?)
quality of american schools compared to other countries?</p>
<p>I think cost will be more reasonable. Schools will expand and allow more students, with many classes/tests offered online.</p>
<p>The SAT will be out of 1600 points again :-P
ACT will die out, unfortunately.</p>
<p>American schools will still be top notch. </p>
<p>Schools will automatically recruit capable, qualified students.</p>
<p>Ummmm... I don' think you need to wait for the year 2050 to see Harvard on the Common App, seeing how they already use it :)</p>
<p>At top schools:</p>
<p>Less 1% admissions rate at HYPSM (why do the Chinese need to have so much babies!?)</p>
<p>Minorities will be the majority over whites for the first time</p>
<p>Grade inflation to the max</p>
<p>"Less" importance of top schools since you can get an equal education at the state school (minus the prestige, of course)</p>
<p>More importance to standardized testing since they finally realize all schools are NOT equal</p>
<p>ACT will become more popular because it is more "student friendly" than the SAT</p>
<p>yeah... Harvard is on the common app... silly me :(
interesting conflict with the prediction about ACT vs. SAT
I also hope it will be out of 1600 again. And I think we will always have the 2 tests to choose from</p>
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<p>Affirmative action for whites. Finally, a break!</p>
<p>I agree with fried rice's post.
The total cost for going to a private school for 4 years will be 10 times greater than today. 2 million dollars in some cases?! lol</p>
<p>20% of our GDP will spent on tuition. Not on general education, just college tuition.</p>
<p>Harvard's endowment > GDPs of Switzerland, Kenya, Ukraine, Egypt, and Yale combined.</p>
<p>20 schools will tie for first on USNWR ranking, and 50 will tie for 21st.</p>
<p>Latin will truly be dead. </p>
<p>English will be taught in the Classics department.</p>
<p>Boston College will finally win a National Football Championship.</p>
<p>Charlie Weis will finally be fired.</p>
<p>Bobby Bowden will finally die (or so we think). On the same note, FSU, Florida and USF will merged as one school and call itself the University of Georgia 2.0 (this is due to Florida being submerged under 20 feet of water).</p>
<p>University of Phoenix will be the 13th grade.</p>
<p>Asians will have to take the SAT twice, while being blind folded, also 500 points will be subtracted from the average...just to make thing fair.</p>
<p>reddune.... lol. Berkeley will be 99.9% asian. golly what we need is a big asian donor
stem cell reserach will take place illegally</p>
<p>SATs out of 4000 (CR, M, W, CR, more CR)</p>
<p>GPAs out of 14.0 (up to 40 APs possible to take in whole HS career, 10 per year including freshman year)</p>
<p>Everyone will be captains of hir 50 player varsity team.</p>
<p>No more affirmative action. Everyone will have a sort of beige skin tone (ie. you WILL have some chinese/indian blood in you. source: Russell Peters).</p>
<p>Also, Africa will be a properous continent due to all the donations (from HS kids) and cultural mixings (ie. the Russell Peters theory).</p>
<p>etc...</p>
<p>I'll be teaching there! (Hopefully)</p>
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you mean legally??
As for colleges expanding, AdamJaz, I really dont see this happening to a lot of the LACs and private top U's. This takes a lot of capital. Some schools (like Rice) are consciously growing over the next few years, but it is a BIG committment-- infrastructure (dorms office/classroom/lab space, parking, etc) and increased faculty and staff. May schools are perfectly happy with their size and don't plan to enlarge just because the student numbers are larger and competition is steeper. They would have done it a long time ago.</p>
<p>(This is all just guesstimating, speculating)
Actually, I think admit rates will go up by 2050, since the echo-boomers will have come to an end, and birth rates in 1st world countries are going down. Places like China and India will create more competitive colleges, so asian percentage might go down in the US.
SATs and ACTs will be more important, and will be more developed to eventually become college entrance tests with 1 hour essays evaluating critical thinking. (though still, not the whole thing of the application). Harvard will still remain in top alone. From 2nd place down, rankings will constantly shift. Perhaps a Chinese/indian college will enter the top 10 global universities. Tuition cost will definitely go up, about 2-3 times the inflation rate.</p>
<p>I doubt that China/India will have dominant colleges. Top students will continue to leave, and the EU, Japan, and the US will have the top Universities. There will be lots of governmental investment in both public and private colleges in order to steal top students from other countries.</p>
<p>College will be made obsolete by new inventions</p>
<p>Sorry for being negative sometimes in this, but:</p>
<p>All applications will be submitted electronically
There will be enough colleges if states recognize the need to make more, but current colleges will be much more selective. Expect the ivy leagues to become so impossible, that more collegess are added to the list of "ivy caliber" schools.
Cost will of course go up with inflation, but will still surpass the relative cost we pay today.
State institutions will grow greatly, and states will struggle to build more to meed demand. Because college has become pretty much the absolute standard of education by this time (like high schools) there will need to be many more. There shouldn't be the need to district students though.
As stated before, the Ivy Leagues will become random. Truthfully, I expect each school to hold its own "admission day" where finalist students gather on the campus and compete in Olympic style events to gain admission, just like those poor people last year racing for a Playstation 3. Just replace all instances of "PS3" with "Ivy League Admission." YouTube</a> - Man Smashes Into Pole Racing For PS3 At Walmart
The SAT and ACT will both still exist, and so will the essay. However, the SAT essay will be scored like the ACT one, and not included in the final score and seen as additional information for colleges.
At this rate, American schools will suck more, unless someone intervenes. PLEASE! SOMEONE!</p>
<p>Also, the University of Florida will become extremely large. (Florida will not sink thanks to scientific ingenuity. LOL) They will make the decision not just to become a larger college, but to become its own city with a charter and a mayor. (A political science grad school student) It will be within Gainsville like the Vatican in Italy. FAU will also have a satellite campus in every city in Florida, because everyone loves satellite campuses! The University of South Florida will also be renamed, because it is in Tampa, NOT in South Florida, and soon the college will come to that sad conclusion.</p>
<p>Why do people think that the Ivy admit rates will dip so far%?</p>
<p>Is this a judgment based solely on an increasing population?</p>
<p>USNWR will no longer publish a college ranking due to lack of interest; SAT will go out of business as it's no longer required by most of the top national schools and virtually all the LACs.</p>
<p>I hope we all get smarter by 2050...</p>
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I'm not sure if you were replying to my post, but I was referring to how Russell Peters (comedian) joked about how there's more and more cultural mixing and eventually, you'll have to do a Chinese or Indian, because we're like 1/3 of the population or something haha.</p>