<p>@Anniebeats: Please see: <a href=“http://old.suny.edu/about_suny/fastfacts/”>http://old.suny.edu/about_suny/fastfacts/</a></p>
<p>The State University of New York (SUNY) currently has 422,582 undergraduates – that’s probably more undergraduate students than the top 20 or 30 private colleges combined (I haven’t done the math, but will let you take a stab at it). SUNY colleges do not ask students for an EC list, as they don’t consider EC’s when evaluating applicants. And that’s just one state. Combine that with 49 other states and I do not see how your stats can possibly be accurate. Maybe your stats are from the “Of the school’s surveyed” kind, but I think T26E4’s estimate of all US colleges (public and private) is a much more accurate estimate.</p>