September 8, 2000

Faced With Enrollment Crunch, Many Colleges Shut the Back Door

By LEO REISBERG

Flagship public universities are forced to phase out second-tier admissions

Jill Bryant applied to one college last year: Ohio State University at Columbus. Her two sisters are both happily enrolled there, and she liked the anonymity of a large campus. But with a C average in high school and an ACT score of 17 out of a possible 36, she failed to impress the admissions office.

Many institutions would have thrown Ms. Bryant's application onto the reject

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