Click here for the article of The New York Times,
The Harvard campus in Cambridge, Mass. This year, 7 percent of applicants will be admitted to Harvard, down from 8 percent last year.
The recession appears to have had little impact on the number of applications received by many of the nation’s most competitive colleges, or on an applicant’s overall chances of being admitted to them.
Representatives of Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown, among other highly selective institutions, said in telephone and e-mail exchanges in recent days that applications for the Class of 2013 had jumped sharply when compared to the previous year’s class. As a result, the percentage of applicants who will receive good news from the eight colleges of the Ivy League (and a few other top schools that send out decision letters this week) is expected to hover at – or near – record lows...
But what about economic interest in the institutions that would actually be affected by the economy?
What good does it do to look at Ivy League institutions? Lets face it, most people who are being laid off right now would not apply there - they apply to their local colleges and universities. It would be more pertinent to look at the University of Phoenix Online admission statistics.
Posted by: Avary kent | Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at 10:34 AM