Fueled by rising numbers of high-school graduates and the increasing prevalence of students’ submitting multiple applications, many colleges in Massachusetts are becoming much more selective than ever before, according to today’s Boston Globe. Northeastern University, for example, had an admission rate of 85 percent in 1995 — a level close to an open-doors policy — but this year it accepted only 39 percent of applicants. At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the rate has plummeted from 73 percent to 62 percent over the last decade. —Andrew Mytelka
April 12, 2007
Acceptance Rates Plunge at Mass. Colleges Not Known as Selective
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