June 29, 2001

College Admissions: Why Selectivity Matters

By WILLIAM C. DOWLING

This spring, The Wall Street Journal caused quite a stir with an article about admissions at what used to be called safety schools -- those colleges and universities that, while they weren't the hardest places in the world to get into, provided a reasonable amount of prestige to students and parents from middle-class families. The point of the article was that a lot of the safety schools are no longer sure things for students with high SAT scores and a solid record of extracurricular

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