<p>The college acceptance rate will drop exponentially, combined with a bunch of 3rd worlders and 2nd worlders trying to get in, and prob the doubling amount of US college applicants each year based on birth rate</p>
<p>In the future, I'm sure anyone who rejects harvard after being accepted will be swarmed by mobs of angry students screaming " U TOOK MY SPOT AND IDDNT EVEN USE IT!!"</p>
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<p>Doubted. The black community will continue to grow, but so will the white community -- I doubt blacks will grow faster, so the percent will stay the same. As for Hispanics, same deal, except immigration plays a role. But with all the immigration controversy of late, I'm not sure the percent will increase.</p>
<p>The hispanic community in the US has actually exploded in the last ten years and will continue to do so.</p>
<p>^^ indeed, it has, but as I said, more focus is being put on existing and possible immigration laws and their enforcement, so with that it mind, it just might slow down coniserably.</p>
<p>^But I don't think illegal immigrants can apply to college. Can they?</p>
<p>Not every person of hispanic descent is an illegal immigrant. And even though an individual is the child of illegal immigrants you can be granted citizenship if you were born in the United States.</p>
<p>Illegal immigration does not explain the growth in the northeast region of the United States. Some people actually immigrate legally.</p>
<p>From year to year the difference may not be noticable. But 10 years later you'll be able to see a drastic difference in admission standards.</p>
<p>Yes. By 2020, the Ivies will probably be well below 5% acceptance rates IMO. Many top schools acceptance rates are decreasing steadily at usually 1.5% a year or more. And american emphasis on education is only getting stronger...although i don't think that is all necessarily good, because many people these days seems to think that all colleges are just as good. Like my english teacher, who went to crappy-McState school (basically a no-name CSU party school) and believes that the quality of her education was just as good as Harvards...even though the school is literally as hard as my high school. Anywho, i think to many people are going to college for the degree or societal acceptance, but really it should be for the expanse and increase of intellectual gain.</p>
<p>But yeah, admissions are getting more competetive, and will continue to get more and more competitive. Sucks for my kids (i don't have any, yet, but when i do, oh man is college admissions gonna suck.).</p>
<p>I do find it funny how i always hear of parents here on CC telling there kids "since i got into Brown, you will too" and the parents reasoning is that they got in with a 3.5uw and a 1300 sat, and so since their Child's 3.7uw and 1450/1600 is better than theirs, then the parents are sure that they will get in...YEAH right stupid parents. You freakin got in back in the day when harvard accepted well over 50% of its applicants, and when it's applicants had stats similar to maybe some students of the present classes of NYU or something. Admissions back then was a joke. haha.</p>
<p>There's going to be a peak within the next few years; then it's going to dip back down, so by 2020, I surmise acceptance rates will be as they are now, or higher.</p>
<p>Here's an idea, how about every single college in the world starts building bigger facilities!</p>
<p>nah, then their acceptances rates would go up and USNEWs would throw them out the window.</p>
<p>Colleges are loving being able to someday smack their acceptance rate to "0.1%"</p>
<p>upenn as a crappy safety school 30 years ago is COMPLETE ********</p>
<p>Actually according to the Mayan calendar, the world isn't supposed to end per se in 2012. The calendar goes in cycles, and on 2012, one very important cycle will end. The end to this specific cycle has been termed one of a significant revelation, coincidentally the definition of "apocalypse".</p>
<p>There are thousands of colleges in this country. Everything will be OK.</p>
<p>ses, you no the only colleges they care about are the prestigious ones so just let them dwell in their insecure world of prestige. Eventually they'll out-grow it</p>
<p>"Here's an idea, how about every single college in the world starts building bigger facilities!"</p>
<p>I agree. Instead of the ivies and top schools having 1200-2500 enrolling freshmen, why can't they have say....3000-4000 enrolling freshmen. Sure it's big, but it could possibly balance the diversity factor and allow more minorities to get in. If more people want to go to top schools, they should make room for those people. I knwo only a few schools who have admitted more, but they would admit only 50-200 more than the previous year.</p>
<p>why would they want to? They dont want to become more like those "huge big state schools"</p>
<p>having small entering classes boosts the egos of those who go there so much. "IM SUPR 3LITE!!!"</p>
<p>The benefit of small undergraduate schools is smaller class sizes. That and many universities do not have land to expand out on in order to house their undergraduates or be able to guarantee them housing.</p>
<p>I wouldn't want to go to some of those schools if they doubled the size of their freshman classes.</p>
<p>Freshman classes have already grown exponentially with the rising demand. There isn't room or enough resources to (in a fiscally responsible way) support more students.</p>
<p>You can be elite, without being in a small group of people. Elite means a high class, but not neccesarly a small class. Most state schools are bigger than 3000-4000 people per class.</p>
<p>Yes, but the standards and practices of elite PUBLIC institutions are not the same as those at elite PRIVATE institutions.</p>
<p>There is not necessarily a correlation between class size and prestige. I was simply pointing out that part of what you pay for at top schools is exclusivity and small size.</p>