Why don't the elite colleges expand their classes?

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<p>Would it be better to wish the number of elite colleges to increase instead of asking some limited elite colleges to expand?</p>

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<p>“the most expensive construction project in the history of New England”</p>

<p>This is hilarious to me, apparently Yale forgot about the largest and most expensive construction project in the history of the human race, the Big Dig. Completely overhauled Boston’s infrastructure. Impressive stuff if Yale was going to one up that.</p>

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<p>Many colleges often specialize in one area such as business or engineering or music. I think it makes more sense to select a college that suits your intended major, rather then expect a school of the arts to also start offering engineering degrees if that happens to be your interest.</p>

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<p>The big dig was bigger and more expensive than the panama canal or the great wall of china?</p>

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<p>peg you pardon, but isn’t the “magazine” what people read to decide where they apply? And when I say people, that includes the cream of the crop. So these schools would be smart to do exactly what these magazines takes into consideration.</p>

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<p>Only a small crop of students read those magazines when deciding to where to apply. The vast majority of college students planning a typical 4-year college experience make their decision based on cost, staying close to home, continuing presence of high school friends, and a specific area they wish to study.</p>

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<p>Moreover, I expect very few high school students read USNWR rankings and then say, “Oh, there’s one in California called Stanford. I suppose I could apply there.”</p>

<p>Xavier or Colorado College might garner more applications that way, but HYP et al.? I doubt it.</p>

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<p>N.Y.U. Head Faces Prelude to a No-Confidence Vote
<a href=“Sexton, N.Y.U. President, Faces Prelude to a Possible No-Confidence Vote - The New York Times”>Sexton, N.Y.U. President, Faces Prelude to a Possible No-Confidence Vote - The New York Times;

<p>“In particular, they cite the university’s plan to expand in Greenwich Village, over the opposition of 38 academic departments, and its efforts to establish footholds around the world, even in countries where there is no academic freedom, where professors are then asked to work.”</p>

<p>Yale has also received much negative pushback from its faculty about plans for a campus in Singapore, much having to do with that city state’s poor civil liberty/rights record. The faculty has issues with the idea of academic freedom in an authoritarian, repressive society.</p>

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<p>there has to be some sort of elitist race to the top of the rankings. I mean it has to matter to somebody in the faculty, which probably has quite a few alumni with a lot of pride.</p>

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<p>You seem convinced that it is so. </p>

<p>I have never seen any evidence of it, but I know I will never prove a negative to you.</p>

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