<p>Out of state tuition is ridiculous. At UT it was $8,930 (in-state); $30,006 (out-of-state) (in 09-10 so its more now) so with room and board and other expenses an out of state student is paying about $45,000 dollars a year to go to a state school.</p>
<p>^Since so many people are in-state because of the 8% rule, the administration must compensate. It’s $46,000 for OOS students at UVA. There, 75% of the incoming class must be from Virginia. Given that UVA has been having budget issues, the numbers aren’t completely surprising.</p>
<p>^ Well I’m not a fan of the 7.5/8/10% rule. As a Texas resident and someone who is completely opposed to race based affirmative action I’d rather go back to that than have this socioeconomic affirmative action BS (at least then I would benefit). It punishes people whose parents want to raise them in a good area and who go to better schools. I’ve heard about kids that got into ivies but got rejected from UT.</p>
<p>@ MIT
Lol I see what you did there…</p>
<p>I don’t think limiting the number of schools a students can apply to will help at all. Admission rates are based on the expected enroll rate, which would be unaffected by such limitations. If students are forced to apply to only a few schools, then the admit rate would simply be smaller because the yield rate would be larger.</p>
<p>One of the most needed reforms is a reduction in tuition fees. I cringe every time at the thought that the U.S. is such a debt-based country. The top universities are already over-funded, so I don’t quite understand the necessity of charging 50k per year. </p>
<p>Applying to colleges should definitely not be harder. High School College-Bound Seniors certainly don’t need more work than they already have. It’s also pointless since it doesn’t affect the yield rate. In fact, the process should be more objective than it is right now.</p>
<p>Advantages based on connections or intrinsic factors (affirmative action, legacy, being famous, connections with a faculty, and probably first generation as well) needs to end so more qualified students can take advantage of resources given at the college, possible increasing the graduation rate, etc. Diversity does not justify discrimination.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the largest problem remains that the population is getting larger. I do not see a solution to the inevitable 1% admit rate of HYPSM.</p>
<p>Well… we already know that Colleges accept more than will enroll.
Eventually… that number will get smaller.</p>
<p>^^ Making HYP make their education free would be impossible because, being private schools, the government can’t ready tell them what to do.</p>
<p>I dis agree. People can be talented in different ways and contribute to the life of the school in different ways…not just one way, except of course to be decent humane beings.</p>
<p>We need to get rid of pointless GED classes that eat up our tuition money.</p>
<p>All this nagging makes me want to fall asleep…</p>
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But would the Ivies agree to that?</p>
<p>I wonder what will happen if one could only apply eitherto Harvard or Yale (just like Oxbridge).</p>
<p>^Princeton would be angry</p>
<p>^ Oh would it really 
IMO if you could apply to one of HYP (only) H would have the most applicants and P the least? But it is an idea.
A downside would be that at the game, Harvard would not be able to go joking around that “Yale is the safety school”.</p>
<p>bump!!!</p>
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<p>Hey there.</p>
<p>I think some colleges are now trending to pay more attention to how ‘they as a college’ can help the student reach their goals, and paying more attention to the ‘fit’ of the student into the college culture. That’s awesome in my opinion.</p>
<p>Do college advertising e-mails and mail count as the admission process? I have a huge problem about those (the mailing part, not the e-mailing part). I know colleges have to advertise, but it seems to me that there must be a better way to spend all that money and paper.</p>
<p>@gram: Heyy :)</p>